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www.benisonmedia.com ARTICLE Environmental and essential to ensure Think Grain Think Feed - Volume 11 | Issue 12 | Oct 2025

Strengthen local feed
·
Economic Benefits
nutritional consistency and
self-sufficiency.
safety.
The adoption of alternative
While technical and
feed resources contributes
Future Directions and
significantly to both
remain, continued
environmental and economic
innovation, policy support,
To accelerate adoption,
sustainability: Policy Support regulatory challenges
several steps are needed: and awareness among
· Environmental gains: 1. Research investment to farmers and consumers will
Reduced carbon drive the shift toward
optimize processing and
emissions, better waste sustainable poultry nutrition.
inclusion levels of novel
management, and Integrating these approaches
ingredients.
resource conservation. will not only support food
2. Life-cycle assessments to
· Economic gains: Lower security but also foster
quantify sustainability
feed costs, diversification resilient, circular agricultural
impacts.
of inputs, and resilience ecosystems for the future.
3. Economic and market
to market fluctuations. Source: International Journal of
analysis to evaluate Veterinary Sciences and Animal
· Circular economy: Husbandry (2025) 10(9): 168–173
profitability.
Utilizing agricultural DOI:
4. Long-term feeding trials
waste as feed minimizes https://doi.org/10.22271/veterinary.20
disposal problems and to assess health and 25.v10.i9c.2549
productivity outcomes.
adds value. Disclaimer:
As awareness of climate 5. Supportive policies and This is a condensed and
incentives—such as tax
change and ethical food paraphrased version (approx.
systems grows, consumers benefits and grants—to 1,500 words) of the original
increasingly prefer poultry promote insect and open-access article
raised with sustainable feed plant-based protein published in the
practices—potentially industries. International Journal of
allowing producers to access 6. Capacity building and Veterinary Sciences and
premium markets. farmer training programs. Animal Husbandry. The
Limitations and Challenges 7. Clear regulations for summary is intended for
Despite their promise, safety and quality educational and
alternative feeds face several assurance of new feed informational purposes only.
Please refer to the full
challenges: types.
publication for complete
· Nutrient variability: Collaboration between
details.
Composition varies with research institutions,
crop type, harvest government agencies, and Citation:
conditions, and industry players is key to Bhosale TR, Dhage SA,
processing. scaling these innovations Gaikwad US, Adangale SB,
· Anti-nutritional factors: globally. Birari DR (2025). Nutritional
Compounds like tannins, Conclusion perspectives and innovations
in alternative feed resources
phytic acid, and saponins The transition to sustainable
can affect digestibility. poultry feeding systems is for sustainable poultry
production: A review.
· Palatability issues: Some essential for balancing
International Journal of
waste-derived ingredients productivity, profitability, and
Veterinary Sciences and
may reduce feed intake. environmental stewardship.
Animal Husbandry, 10(9):
· Digestibility: High-fiber Alternative feed
168–173.
residues may lower resources—ranging from
energy availability unless plant residues to insect License:
properly processed. proteins and Azolla—offer Creative Commons
Advanced formulation promising pathways to: Attribution–NonCommercial–
models, enzyme · Lower production costs, ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
supplementation, and · Reduce ecological
standardized processing are footprint,

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