Mengesha, 2012 – The Issue of Feed-Food Competition and Chicken Production for the Demands of Foods of Animal Origins.

This study reviews all attributes of feed-food competition and enforced-demands of food of animal origin with the aim of delivering synthesized information and benificiaries. Population, urbanisation and rising incomes are ecpected to double the demands for livestock products in the developing countires. Based on the demands, there has been a rise in production of livestock products in the world; however, this overall increase is not occuring in the poorer African countries, rather declining. With increased production of animal products, there will be increased demands for feed. Moreover, increased mono-gastic populations and intensive feeding systems with improved genotypes resulted in a greater demand for concentrate feeds. Since, most production cost of poultry is based on concentrated feed; this sector has been facing of feed-food competition for those non-grain self sufficient countries. Thus, major poultry feed ingredients have been facing market competition with human food demands of poor countries like Ethiopia. To cope up with this food-feed competition, thoses poor feeds needs to be technivally treated to improving nutritional values, and moreover, institutional collaberations and support is demanding in order to facilitate for alternative feed utilisations. Use of biotechnology in animla production also improves feed utilizatin and productivity. Moreover, advanced concept of biotechnology is still to making edible products from outside the animals. It is to conclude that responsible institutions should gear their programme and responsibility towards solving a problem of feed-food competition and dependancy fro importing improved chicken breeds.