As azolla has very good nutritive value for animal and it can be used as source of proteins (25-37%), minerals (10-15%) and Amino acids (7-10%) which effects on increasing the milk yield in milch animal, weight gain in goat and poultry and useful for increasing the quality and quantity of egg also.

The feeding of azolla to the animal is also useful for minimizing the cost of production on milk. Therefore it can be used as a subsidiary feed for animal. Looking to the nutritive value of azolla a demonstration cum azolla culture production unit has been established at KVK, Bhandara.