The price of poultry feed remains high in Bangladesh despite its fall in global markets, said Suman Hawlader, president of the Bangladesh Poultry Association (BPA).

International market prices of poultry feed ingredients had dropped in the second quarter of this calendar year, yet locally produced feed has turned anything but cheap. 

First, a gang smuggles solid wastes of leather (leftovers after cutting and trimming) from the Savar Tannery Industrial Estate.  Then it sells them to poultry and fish feed producing factories around  the country.

Earlier this year, this paper published a report on the widespread use of meat and bone meal (MBM) in poultry feed which can cause

A government study has found various types of antibiotics in almost 50 percent poultry feed samples of 14 brands collected from four districts.

The poultry industry is keen to have the government lift the recent ban on import and sale of meat and bone meal (MBM), a protein concentrate that is used as feed for chickens.

The Department of Livestock Services (DLS) has ordered all its offices across the country to strictly monitor the quality of poultry and animal feed.

The government has banned import and sale of meat and bone meal, a protein concentrate for poultry, because of its health risks to human and livestock.