DAR ES SALAAM, June 23 -- ANIMAL feed accounts for the largest share of poultry production costs, making it one of the biggest challenges facing Tanzanias fast-growing poultry industry.

Seeking to address that problem, Tanzanian researcher and entrepreneur Dr White frank Frank has spent nearly a decade developing a poultry feed formulation that he says can lower production costs by about 20 per cent while maintaining commercially acceptable growth rates in broiler chickens.

The product, developed through Afrimix Animal Feeds, is the outcome of eight years of research aimed at reducing one of the industrys most significant expenses.

The company plans to enter a market where feed prices have risen steadily, squeezing margins for both sma...