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Discuss the implications of the following statement:

“It is interesting to note that poultry is India’s most efficient converter of low fibre food stuff (which is unfit for human consumption) into highly nutritious animal protein food.”

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Poultry farming:

  1. ​Poulty farming is the practice of farming of fowls for the production of eggs and meat.
  2. The fowls that are reared in the poultry farms are fed with the leftover fibres from the cereals that are left after the grains are removed.
  3. These are low fibre food that the fowl intake to grow and they produce the eggs and meat finally.
  4. Therefore, by feeding them the low fibre food that humans generally do not intake, they are providing the highly nutritious animal protein food in the form of meat and eggs.

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