Nutritional quality of Indian oilseed meals

摘要

India produces approximately about 17 million tones of oilseed meals per year (Gain report 2011, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service). While the majority of this production is soybeans, other major oilseedsproduced in India include rapeseed, mustard, peanut, sunflower, cottonseed and sesame. Soybean meal (SBM) is the most widely used oilseed meal in poultry diets, but SBM alone cannot meet the demand forprotein in livestock diets.