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UAE Animal Feed Market Size to Hit USD 3,376.05 Million by 2033 | With a 2.75% CAGR

The UAE animal feed market is expanding steadily, driven by rising livestock farming, growing dairy and poultry demand, and initiatives to strengthen food security and sustainable nutrition.
Published 09 December 2025

UAE Animal Feed Market Overview

Market Size in 2024: USD 2,644.68 Million

Market Size in 2033: USD 3,376.05 Million

Market Growth Rate 2025-2033: 2.75%

According to IMARC Group's latest research publication, "UAE Animal Feed Market: Industry Trends, Share, Size, Growth, Opportunity and Forecast 2025-2033", The UAE animal feed market size reached USD 2,644.68 Million in 2024. The market is projected to reach USD 3,376.05 Million by 2033, exhibiting a growth rate (CAGR) of 2.75% during 2025-2033.

How AI is Reshaping the Future of UAE Animal Feed Market:

  • AI can optimize feed formulation by analyzing nutrient requirements and environmental factors to improve animal health and production efficiency, supporting the growth of sustainable feed solutions.
  • Government initiatives supporting sustainability in animal feed production, such as those encouraging circular economy practices, align well with AI-driven waste reduction and resource optimization.
  • Companies like núaFEEDs leverage innovative AI-enabled processes to transform food waste, such as leftover bread, into premium animal feed, reducing landfill and supporting local feed security.
  • AI-driven supply chain optimizations facilitate the consolidation of local production capacities, as seen with Al Ain Farms Group (AAFG), improving operational efficiency and reducing import reliance.
  • Implementation of AI-based tracking and monitoring in feed manufacturing enables companies to ensure product quality while minimizing resource consumption, directly contributing to environmental goals.
  • Regulatory frameworks, including consultations to incorporate new feed regulations, are increasingly accommodating AI tools for compliance, enhancing animal nutrition, welfare, and sustainability standards.

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How Vision 2030 is Transforming UAE Animal Feed Market

The UAE's Vision 2030 is revolutionizing the animal feed sector by prioritizing food security and sustainable agriculture through the National Food Security Strategy 2051, driving investments in aquaculture, camel-specific feeds, and integrated ruminant-poultry systems that reduce import dependency while fostering local production hubs in Abu Dhabi and Dubai; this blueprint integrates AI for precision farming and eco-friendly additives, aligning with non-GMO demands and regulatory standards from MOCCAE to support booming livestock and pet food sectors, ultimately positioning the UAE as a resilient agri-food innovator by the decade's end.

Market Growth Factors

The UAE’s animal feed scene is growing fast thanks to stronger focus on eco-friendly methods and homegrown output. Instead of depending heavily on outside sources, farms are turning to smarter feeding systems that cut down on excess. Rising costs for food and power, along with worries about supply stability and nature damage, are pushing this shift forward. One example includes new plants transforming stale bread leftovers into livestock nutrition - a clever move boosting green farming habits. Such steps help shrink import needs while creating reuse loops, improving resource use and strengthening access to reliable nourishment.

A big reason for growth? The country’s pushing hard to make its own food smarter and more independently. Instead of relying on imports, the UAE is boosting homegrown feed output by merging key local names into Al Ain Farms Group. These mergers help smooth out processes, lift poultry and protein supply locally, while also backing eco-friendly moves - think less waste and saving water. All this builds a tougher, stand-on-its-own feet feeding network that keeps markets growing down the line.

The UAE’s animal feed market grows thanks to more varied ingredients along with split-up customer demands. Different shapes like pellets or crumbles - matched to specific animals - are studied closely, covering everything from cows to poultry using grains or supplements. Busy hubs such as Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Sharjah help fine-tune delivery routes while shaping ads based on local habits. These factors together push steady growth across the whole sector.

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Market Segmentation

Form Insights:

  • Pellets
  • Crumbles
  • Mash
  • Others

Animal Type Insights:

  • Swine 
  • Starter
  • Finisher
  • Grower
  • Ruminants 
  • Calves
  • Dairy Cattle
  • Beef Cattle
  • Others
  • Poultry
  • Broilers
  • Layers
  • Turkeys
  • Others
  • Aquaculture 
  • Carps
  • Crustaceans
  • Mackeral
  • Milkfish
  • Mollusks
  • Salmon
  • Others
  • Others

Ingredient Insights:

  • Cereals
  • Oilseed Meal 
  • Molasses
  • Fish Oil and Fish Meal
  • Additives
  • Antibiotics
  • Vitamins
  • Antioxidants
  • Amino Acids
  • Feed Enzymes
  • Feed Acidifiers
  • Others
  • Others

Regional Insights:

  • Dubai
  • Abu Dhabi
  • Sharjah
  • Others

Competitive Landscape:

The competitive landscape of the industry has also been examined along with the profiles of the key players.

Recent Development & News

  • February 2025: A leading UAE agribusiness company announced a multi-million-dollar investment to expand its animal feed production facility in Abu Dhabi, increasing output of poultry and livestock feed to support rising domestic consumption.


  • April 2025: The UAE government launched a major food security initiative that included incentives for local feed manufacturers to adopt sustainable, high-nutrition formulations—boosting demand for advanced feed additives and premixes.


  • July 2025: A global feed additive supplier entered a strategic partnership with a UAE distributor to supply premium amino acids, enzymes, and probiotics, marking one of the year’s largest feed nutrition collaborations.


  • September 2025: Major livestock and dairy operators in the UAE signed long-term procurement contracts for high-performance compound feed, driven by herd expansion and modernization of large-scale farming operations.


  • November 2025: A UAE-based agri-tech firm secured significant funding to develop AI-driven precision feeding systems, enabling optimized feed consumption for poultry and cattle farms and improving overall farm productivity.

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