Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for Converting Sugarcane Bagasse Into Cost-Effective Poultry Feed

MUMBAI, India, Nov. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641124138 A) filed by Sri Venkateswara College Of Engineering on October 16, 2026, for Converting Sugarcane Bagasse Into Cost-Effective Poultry Feed.

Inventors include M. Sivanandham; and V. Sumitha.

The application for the patent was published on October 30, 2026, under issue no. 44/2026.

Abstract: Poultry feed is manufactured using food crops like corn and maize, which will not be sufficient to care both human consumption and the poultry industry, hence needs to be replaced by a suitable low-cost alternative. Sugarcane, one of the important commercial crops in India, results in an annual output of approximately 90 million tonnes of sugarcane bagasse. Bagasse is the fibrous biomass left after extracting the juice by crushing the sugarcane stalks. Sugarcane bagasse, a byproduct of the sugarcane industry, can be as an alternative for the protein and energy source of poultry feed. This raw bagasse could not be directly used as poultry feed because of its low digestibility. It could be processed to meet the requirements of the poultry feed, by increasing its digestibility, and supplementing it with essential nutrients. Five kg of Sugarcane bagasse was sundried and the size was reduced to 1mm and fed to the 100 L horizontal rotating drum solid state fermentor to maintain 50 % working volume. Probiotic LAB species were inoculated during the first stage of the fermentation process to produce lactic acid and reduce the lignin content. Probiotic yeast species were inoculated during the second stage of the fermentation process to increase the protein content. The objective of this invention is to increase the digestibility of sugarcane bagasse via a fermentation route and formulate it into a cost-effective, nutritious poultry feed. Hence, this processed sugarcane bagasse supplemented with essential nutrients in order to meet the poultry feed requirements could be a cheaper alternative source of poultry feed.

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