India"s Livestock sector has a significant impact on growth of country"s economy. But there is a progressive shrinkage in grazing area with increasing human population, which has led to a growing concern for animal feeding. There has been increasing dependence on nutritionally poor feed like crop residues, which deteriorates the animal health and production drastically. To fulfil the nutritional requirements, supplements containing non-protein nitrogen (NPN) compounds with easily available carbohydrates could be given to the animals. Urea is one of the easily available and cheap source of NPN and molasses is a source of easily fermentable carbohydrate available in plenty. Laboratory studies have clearly indicated that feeding UMMB reasonably compensates the deficiency of low quality fibrous straws and provides nutrients for maintenance and production. But the existing manual process of UMMB preparation is time consuming, drudgerous and costly. Keeping above in view an Urea Molasses Mineral Block Machine has been developed. Drawing of the machine has been presented in Fig. 1 and front and side views of the machine have been presented in Plates 1.
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