Question 1
Discuss the implications of the following statement:
"It is interesting to note that poultry is India's most efficient converter of low fibre foodstuff (which is unfit for human consumption) into highly nutritious animal protein food."
(a) In India, poultry is the most efficient converter of low fibre foodstuff into highly nutritious animal protein food.
(b) In poultry farming, domestic fowls are raised to produce eggs and chicken.
(c) For this, the fowls are given animal feeds in the form of roughage, which mainly consists of fibres.
(d) Thus, by feeding animals a fibre rich diet, the poultry gives highly nutritious food in the form of eggs and meat.