At that time representatives from several feed information services formed the International Network of Feed Information Centre (INFIC Publication 1, 1977). The first consultation meeting was held in 1971, in Rome. The report (Alderman, 1971) enumerated the value of a collaborative effort in this field, both to developing countries and to animal production at the international level and recommended that FAO act as the coordinator for international activities in collection of data on feed composition and its summarization and dissemination. FAO, in turn, sent a consultant to review on-going international activities in the fields of feed data collection and methods for retrieval of these data, and to report on possibilities for collaboration on an international basis.
Personnel at the Utah (United States) centre contacted FAO concerning the need for world cooperation. Although there was some contact between the two centres for several years, it was not possible to combine or adapt the systems to each other. German documentation began in 1949 and the United States began in 1952. 1.1 International Network of Feed Information Centre (INFIC) This information is fundamental in assigning priorities to the use of available feed supplies in animal agriculture. These decisions are among the most critical that civilization faces today.ĭecisions can be made only on the basis of reliable information concerning the composition of all feed materials used in animal feeding. Efforts should be made to maximize production but also to allocate nutrient supplies in a competitive situation for the maximum benefit to the society concerned.
The first is an abundance of food material which is not in a usable form or aesthetically acceptable as human food, and the second is a surplus of food material accompanied by a standard of living sufficiently high that the nutrient losses involved in feeding animals are compensated for by the increased desirability and nutritional excellence of foods of animal origin.ĭecisions relevant to the first set of conditions include determining the optimum numbers and kinds of animals that can be productively supported by the available feedstuffs. International Network of Feed Information Centre (INFIC)įeeding farm animals is a process of priority decision-making involving at least two general conditions. VITAMIN AND MINERAL SUPPLEMENTS AND MISCELLANEOUS ADDITIVES THE SYSTEMATIC COLLECTION AND RECORDING OF DATA ON FEED COMPOSITIONĬALCULATIONS USED IN SUMMARIZATION OF FEED COMPOSITION DATA
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