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WASTE TO WEALTH IN AGRICULTURE

                                     

In animal husbandry, it has been agreed with proof that feeding alone takes over 60% of the total production costs.

With continual rise in prices of conventional feed ingredients it has become imperative to device other cheaper but effective means to make feeds for livestock.

One of these is the inclusion of industrial wastes in animal feed production. Although a number of factors affect the use of some of these materials, but with appropriate steps, they can be used with little or no side effects.

Some of these wastes include:

Rice and Corn bran

Palm oil sludge

Shea butter cake

Brewery wastes

Rice bran and corn bran can replace maize in animal diet and they cost less than 15% of the cost of maize, same thing with shea butter cake.

Limiting factors in their uses include:

High fibre contents

High microbial load.

                                                            WAY OUT

We take the high fibre, high microbes containing wastes through the following processes

De-fibering: through the use of suitable enzymes, they help speed up the breakdown of these ingredients thus increasing their absorption level, sometimes soaking them with microbial inoculants does help.

De-microbing: by slightly heating some of them and increasing their acidic level to a level non-toxic to the body, we achieve this.

With all said and done, we can achieve our goal of turning wastes to wealth in Agriculture 

 

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