Project Report

FISH FEED MILL

Mallarpur Agro Food Processing

REH Industrial Cooperative Society Ltd.
Bahina More, PO + PS Mallarpur,

Dist. Birbhum - 731216

 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Name of the unit : Mallarpur Agro Food Processing REH Industrial Cooperative Society Ltd.

Office Address : Bahina More, P.O.+ P.S. Mallarpur, Dist. Birbhum. Pin. 731216

The Cooperative was registered vide Regn. No. 117/MS&ME dated 20.02.2019 by the Director,
Micro Small & Medium Enterprises W.B. and Ex-officio Additional Registrar of Co-operative
Societies, West Bengal.

Total number of members in the society is 15.

The Board Members of the Society is as under :

1) Sudip Mondal , Chairman.

2) Asim Let , Vice Chairman
3) Prafulla Bhuimali, Secretary
4) Samapta Let, Treasurer
5) Akshya Mondal, Director
6) Partha Bhuimali, Director.

History of the Society :

The Co-operative society was formed with members from SC/ST community for all-round
development of that backward sector.

The objective of the society is to start various production units like Fish-feed mill, Atta-mill, Oil
Mill, Rice Mill and Puffed rice Mill etc. by financial help from government departments.
Fish Feed Plant Background & Necessity

Along with the development of aquaculture, aquafeed industry has also made a quite fast
progress, especially in virtue of continue advancement of breeding technology, the culturing
mode has turned into intensive cultivation from extensive fish farming, which provides vast
space for fish feed production. In line with the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) report,
the per capita fish consumption of human beings has exceeded beef consumption while farmed
fish has surpassed wild caught. It is well known that fish feed plays a leading role in global
aquaculture and fish farming field, making sure safe, abundant and affordable fish proteins, but
meanwhile, the cost of aquatic feed is so high that affecting sustainable development of
aquaculture industry. Therefore, it is necessary, economic and practical for fish farmers or feed
plants to establish their own fish feed production line rather than buying or importing feed
from elsewhere.

Fish Feed Plant Aim & Significance

Feed is the first and foremost factor that affects the growth of aquatic animals. With the
advantages of low feed coefficient, low incidence of fish disease and resistance to transport,
high quality feed is conducive to fish fast growth and aquatic products quality and safety.
Compared with other feed manufacturing technologies, extruded processing technique of fish
feed plant has unparalleted superiority in making fish feed pellets. For instance, extruded feed
pellet is easy to digest and absorb, which can promote the digestive utilization ratio of feed; it
has good stability in water for long time with less pollution to water and environment, avoiding
scattering before ingestion and greatly reduce the loss of nutrient substance and the waste of
fish feed. All in all, extruded fish feeds produced by our fish feed production line are
environment-friendly superior quality fodder with low pollution, little waste, high efficiency and
high conversion rate, becoming an inevitable trend of aquaculture feed industry. fish feed
production lineWhat’s more, fish feed plant is able to achieve the availability of feed ingredient
at low prices in required quantity and control the key link – fish feed to get more profits and
ensure food quality safety.

Fish Feed Market Demand

According to the diverse eating habits of different type fishes, feed should have properties –
floating, slow floating or sinking, and keep stability in water for certain time so as to leave
enough ingesting time for fish. Fortunately, our fish feed plant can make aquatic feed with the
above characteristics, meeting the environmental protection and high efficiency requirements
of feed in aquaculture. In general, it is local fish farmers that would be main potential target
markets if establishing fish feed production line.

Fish Feed Plant Production Process

Generally speaking, fish feed production process flow has several main steps, including
procurement of feed ingredients, raw materials grinding, mixing, extruding, drying and
automatic weighing and packaging, in tune with scientific and nutrient aquatic feed
formulation.
Fish-feed-plant-process-flow

Acquisition of feed ingredients

According to nutritional requirement for fish feed, the main components of feed ingredients
should contain protein, lipids, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. Most of raw materials can
be procured locally, for example, in Nigeria, there are many available feed ingredients
considered as potential materials for fish feed, including rice bran, maize, wheat bran, soybean
cake, peanut dregs, dry grass powder and so on. When choosing fish feed ingredients, there is
one point that should be kept in mind: quality is the most important point, so do not accept
unsatisfactory batches of ingredients even if offered at low cost due to bad ingredients may
cause harmful effect on fish growth.

◇Grinding

Fish Feed Hammer MillRaw materials need to be crushed for producing fish feed, aiming to get
materials suitable for making high quality feed and appropriate to digest for aquatic animals. To
be specific, crushing can add the exposed surface area of raw materials and make it easier to
digest. Moreover, it can improve the uniformity of mixing, which is especially important for
those fish with little feed intake. Here, we provide a hammer grinding machine – fish feed
hammer mill for processing feed stuffs of various granularity into small pieces. And here is the
working principle of this machine: hammer hit breaks raw materials in the crushing chamber
with high-speed rotation; then the broken materials move with continuous friction and crash
against the hammer, toothed plate and sieve for crushing.

◇Mixing

It is the efficient mixing process that is the key to high quality fish feed production. Some
materials with smaller particle size has bad fluidity, so they need to be mixed for longer time for
even mixture. Total blending time is such crucial and is affected by the composition of fish feed
formula. Adopting our fish feed mixer, also called ribbon blender can mix various fluid and
thick, pasty and granular materials. With excellent design and easy operation, it is made of high
quality stainless steel, contributing to its wear-resistant strength and long lifespan.

◇Extruding

wet-type-fish-feed-extruderIn the process of extruding, the physical and chemical property of

materials would change sharply (mainly starch dextrinization and protein denaturation) under
the stewing with high temperature, high pressure and high humidity. After extruded from die
hole, the pressure would plunge in a moment, making the moisture in feed turning into gas
state from liquid state, and emitting from feed would cause pellets extrusion and then become
so-called extruded fish feed. This kind of aquafeed has fine palatability and high degree of

starch pasting, which makes it easy to digest, lowering the waste and improving the utilization
of fish feed. Equipped with a boiler, wet type fish feed extruder can provide hot steam
continuously and produce feed pellets with different sizes from 0.9mm to 15mm for various
fishes. In virtue of its high production capacity and good quality, it has been widely praised
among medium- and large-scale feed plants or fish farm.

◇Drying

Pellets need to be dried after extruding so as to remove the redundant water content by fish
feed dryer via drying process technology. With this drying machine, materials can enter the
channel through conveyor belt and be dried via hot air, after that, the temperature would be
lowered quickly to ambient and the moisture would be decreased to around 8% for convenient
storage.

◇Automatic Weighing & Packaging

The dried fish feed pellets should be automatically weighed and packed in bags with machine,
especially for large-capacity feed production plant. With high accuracy, fast speed, automatic
weighing and packing function and excellent operating performance, the cost-efficient
industrial automated packing machine from us can protect fish feed from being contaminated
when moving or transporting. In a word, this machine is very useful to add productivity and
lower labor intensity, suitable for bagging materials, such as fish feed pellets, seeds, grains,
organic fertilizer and the like.