Innovation In Poultry Nutrition Through Sustainable Alternatives To Antibiotic Growth Promoters

The poultry industry has made tremendous advances commercially since the past few decades by increasing production efficiency, smooth organisation of poultry farming in the vertical strata and discoveries in poultry nutritional requirements and genetical modifications. In this journey of achieving economical benefits, antibiotic growth promoters were introduced to refine the nutritional requirements, to reduce the chances of disease outbreaks and to improve the gastrointestinal microflora of poultry birds. But with due course of time, these antibiotic growth promoters raised serious public health concerns and thus alternatives to these promoters were innovated.