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EXPERT TIPS
Think Grain Think Feed - Volume 7 | Issue 10 | August 2021
Expert Tips for
Making Feed Pelleting Process More Efficient & Profitable After successful conclusion of the first series, Think Grain Think Feed organized second session of Process Optimization webinar on 23rd July with Mr M. Kanagaraj – a renowned Feed Milling expert who has trained more than 1000 feed mill professionals including integrators, commercial feed manufacturers and others in the South Asian sub-continent. Renowned experts including Dr Manju Reddy (MR), Asst. Vice President with Japfa India; Mr GR Mulekar(GRM), freelance consultant and Mr Nils Lastein(NL), Application Manager, Andritz Feed & Biofuel A/S joined the webinar as speakers. The 90-minute session was attended by 279 attendees from 24 countries. Below excerpts from the discussion. In the conditioning process, starch gelatinization is one of the major factors. How does it influence the animal performance as well as the feed
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quality and pellet machine productivity?
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MR: Starch gelatinization is the skeleton producing good quality of feed,
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a task for feed miller.Starch gelatinization basically improves the palatability
a feed mill usually achieves 25-30% starch gelatinization. Improvising on this is
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and the bird performance. Starch gelatinization in pellet processing can be broadly classified into Caramelization - addressing the sugar part, Gelatinization - addressing the starch part and Maillard Reaction – de-
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structuring the activity of protein.
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experiments show that if maize is treated at 80-85°C at proper conditioning
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Starch gelatinization increases the energy level of the ingredients. Few level, then there is an energy increase that helps the birds in contributing nutrients. In conditioning or gelatinizing, there is also plasticizing of individual
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