JOIN USMCC plans to convert animal waste to livestock feed
If all goes according to the plans, Mysore will be producing livestock feed from animal waste.Proposed in the recently tabled budget for the year 2013-14, Mysore City Corporation is mulling over establishing a Protein Meal Unit in the city at an estimated cost of Rs one crore.
Before embarking on the project, a delegation of officers from the city corporation is likely to visit Davangere on February 18 where a similar facility is in existence.
Veterinary officer Dr Lingaraj told Deccan Herald, this follows a proposal from Broiler Traders Coordinating Committee (BTCC). Apart from Davangere, Chikkamagalur also has such units.
In the wake of increasing chicken waste owing to skin out, bone and skin find place in refuse at the chicken stalls in the corporation limits. Such waste are rich in protein (five to 10 per cent) and could be used to manufacture by-products like biscuits and layers to feed live stock; dog, cats, cattle and others.
It can also be mixed with poultry feed.It would be advantageous for the local body in dealing with waste and also stray dog bites. Most importantly, it will generate employment opportunities. According to the veterinarian, stray dogs turn aggressive after feeding on chicken waste mixed with solid waste and go on a biting spree.
In the existing set up, the corporation has a dedicated system to collect chicken and mutton waste from nearly two years. The auto tippers collecting such waste earlier, have now been replaced with six goods autorickshaws (Tata Ace) and a canter van.
According to the available information, there are 625 chicken stalls in the city accounting for three to four tonnes of waste per day. Devaraja, Mandi and Vani Vilas markets too generate one to two tonnes of waste taking the total to six tonnes.
The vehicles on the waste collection job, collect the refuse once or twice in a day and dispose the same in MCC owned land at Kesare on the outskirts for deep pit burial.
To keep a track on the system, GPS is fitted to the vehicles. The city corporation also has the data base of the shops, owners and their cellphone numbers.
The stalls also have been provided with the contact numbers to complain in case of dereliction of duty on part of the vehicle drivers. The veterinarian said, now with the streamlining of the waste collection, the proposed meal unit will be supplied the waste, instead of going for deep burial.