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Animal welfare – through an innovative feeding concept for pigs – Cultivation and exploitation of domestic grain legumes and fibre animal feed in practice
Project
Project code: EIP-Agri-Rlp-2016-LPTPG01
Contract period: 01.01.2016
- 31.12.2018
Budget: 467,126 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
Keywords: farming practice/activity, animal husbandry, plant production and horticulture
There still is a lack of practical knowledge regarding the potentials and the effects of the use of adequate domestic, GMO-free protein carriers in pig feeding. In this context, aspects like animal welfare, the waiver of additives and genetic engineering as well as a decreased use of antibiotics move into focus. Practical recommendations regarding which protein plant(s) for pig feeding can be regionally cultivated in an economic and resource-saving way are needed. On the one hand, it is about taking a closer look on the possibilities and limitations of the cultivation of GMO-free domestic grain legumes as well as about optimising their cultivation. On the other hand, the new findings regarding the cultivation of legumes are to be further examined in practice - especially in the context of pig feeding. The aim is an innovative and practicable feeding concept together with a strengthened regional value chain for animal food (cultivation, feeding, refinement).
Section overview
Subjects
- Crop Production
- Animal nutrition
