(1) The feed ingredients to be used for the manufacture of compound feed for livestock and poultry may include the following, namely:—
(i) roughage:
green or dry plant products including green fodder, silage, straw, hay, treated or untreated straws and crop residues;
(ii) concentrate feed and poultry feed ingredients:
(a) major ingredients,—
(i) grains, millets, tubers as fixed by the regulation;
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(ii) vegetable protein sources like oil cakes, oil meal, pulses, protein rich agro-industrial byproducts, which are safe for consumption by livestock or poultry, as fixed by regulation;
(iii) animal protein sources, except in the feed of ruminants, as fixed by the regulation;
(iv) industrial and agricultural products or byproducts which are not harmful for livestock and poultry, as fixed by the regulation;
(b) micro nutrients, supplements or additives.
(2) Use of rice husk, castor husk or meal, jatropha cake or meal, saw dust and non permissible animal origin ingredients are prohibited in the manufacture of compound feed for livestock.
(3) Urea or non-protein nitrogen compounds (except amino acids) which induces ammonium salts are prohibited in the manufacture of feeds for young ruminants:
Provided that urea not exceeding one percentage may be added to the feed for adult ruminants.
(4) The Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette from time to time, declare any ingredients which are to be used or not to be used in the manufacture of compound feed for livestock or poultry other than those included in sub-sections (1), (2) and (3).