The primary objective of raising livestock is to produce good quality of animal products in the form of milk and meat. Besides providing the animal with the feed that precisely meet its nutritional requirements, feed additives are of particular importance for optimum productive efficiency to produce better quality animal products and to contribute cleaner environment and thereby ensure profitability.
Research results, experience, and former practices have led to further expansion in the supply of feed additives since rediscovering the inexhaustible reservoir of the plant kingdom and its potential commercial benefits to make animal production highly efficient.
For additives of this origin the term
“phytogenic feed additives”
has been established.