Plantain grass, various to antibiotics for animals

Plantain grass, various to antibiotics for animals

BAU Correspondent |
 Update: 15:51, May 09, 2019

Broiler chickens has become a well-liked various to free-run native chickens because the local poultry is higher in worth and lower in production. The broiler chickens reared within the poultry farms meet the country's growing demand for animal macromolecule.

However, poultry farmers use harmful antibiotics or growth promoters to supply additional flesh in less time. many folks avoid feeding broiler chicken fearing significant metals and harmful substances getting into the body through consumption of the chicken flesh.

Al Mamun, academic of the farming department, unconcealed the findings through a panel check at the university’s Shahjalal agriculture Laboratory. He claimed that the method involving plantain wouldn't simply increase poultry production, however would additionally increase the nutritionary worth of the meat.

“Antibiotics and hormones will increase growth however severely hinder immunity within the animal's body. The meat, milk or eggs created through during this method could cause chronic sicknesses like internal organ sickness, polygenic disorder and syndrome within the body,” Al Mamun told Prothom Alo.

“Such hormones are prohibited in developed countries, however are getting used indiscriminately in Bangladesh,” he added.

Mohammad Al Mamun started researching on plantain grass because the various to harmful antibiotics in Japan in 2004.

The BAU academic has been self-made in exploitation plantain grass for placental mammal (cattle and sheep) as an alternate to harmful growth hormones.

The use of plantain grass within the rearing of broiler chicken increased the assembly and therefore the quality of meat. This meat is made in polyunsaturated fatty acid, a useful inhibitor for the body.

Omega-3 may be a carboxylic acid, that reduces harmful fat within the body, reduces tendency of symptom, stroke, cancer, cataract, cognitive state and aging.

Plantain (plantago lanceolata L) may be a perennial anthophagous plant. Al Mamun was ready to adapt and cultivate this plant when 3 years of analysis that he started in 2011 in Bangladesh.

He introduced plantain grass cultivation as a crop and as poultry feed at a field level in his home district of Manikganj in 2017.

At least twelve tonnes of plantain grass is cultivated on one acre of land. this could feed 420,000 broiler chickens.

About production prices, Al-Mamun same that broiler chickens is fed recent and dry plantain leaves further as in fine-grained type. the price of hormones for a a pair of8-day chicken is concerning five Bangladeshi monetary unit whereas plantain grass for the identical prices 2.21 taka.

The study additionally found that lower death rates in plantain-fed poultry.

The flesh of chickens fed with plantain grass is low in harmful fat content and therefore the style and color are natural. The bones of those chickens are more durable too, the study says.

The process as a substitute for antibiotics for the expansion of animals and chickens is known as as Bau-Plantive.

Researchers claim, the safe and nourishing meat created by this method can increase the demand of broiler chicken as animal macromolecule.