Table 11. Feed formulae of commonly used and suggested formulated feeds for different life stages of rohu
Spawn	Ingredients	Composition (%)
	Groundnut oil cake	40	32
	Soyabean meal (roasted)	20	10
	Fishmeal	20	20
	Rice bran	10	30
	Fresh liver			50
	Starch			30
	Bioboost forte	1		30
	Vegetable oil	4
	Fish oil	3
	Vegetable oil:fish oil (1:1)		2
	Cod lIver oil			5
	Vitamin and mineral premix	2	2	2
	Phospholipid		4
Fry	Ingredients	Composition (%)
	Groundnut oil cake	28	26
	Azolla powder			60
	Groundnut oil cake			13.9
	Soyabean meal (roasted)	20	23	19
	Sesame oilcake			4
	Fishmeal		16
	Meat meal	20
	Rice bran	30	33	2
	Vitamin and mineral premix	2	2	1
	Attractant			0.1
Fingerlings	Ingredients	Composition (%)
and growers	Groundnut oil cake	25	28	30	40	62
	Soyabean meal (roasted)	25	20	7	20
	Mustard oil cake			35
	Fishmeal	7			8
	Fermented silkworm pupae					6.7
	Meat and bone meal		20
	Rice bran	35	30	26	30	19.3
	Vegetable oil	5			0.5
	Groundnut oil�					5
	Fish oil	2
	Vitamin and mineral premix	1	2	2	1.5	2
	Binder*					5
Broodstock	Ingredients	Composition (%)
	Groundnut oil cake	35
	Soyabean meal (roasted)	20
	Fishmeal	10
	Rice bran	30
	Vegetable oil	2.7
	Fish oil	0.3
	Vitamin and mineral premix	2
	Soybean meal	15	7	7	10
	Groundnut oil cake	50	40	30	20
	Mustard cake		26	35	43
	Rice bran	33	25	26	25
	Vitamin and mineral mixture	2	2	2	2
	Fishmeal	5	15	20	30	50
	Groundnut oil cake	44	39	36.5	31.5	19
	Soybean cake	44	39	36.5	31.5	19
	Rice bran	5	5	5	5	5
	Dicalcium phosphate	1.5	1.5	1.5	1.5	1.5
	Common salt (Nacl)	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3
	Vitamin and mineral mixture	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2
*Mixture of tapioca flour, wheat flour and rice flour in 6:3:1 ratio
Data source: Mohanty et al. (1995); Mohanty (2006); Mukhopadhyaya (2003); Paul et al. (1999)