Title : Bio-processing of agro-wastes for economic chevon production
Abstract:
Chevon is relished all over the world and does not bear a tag of any religious or social taboo. Organized goat farms follow a standard diet chart for the feeding of their animals and include concentrate mixture and fodder as two main constituents. The concentrate part generally accounts for the cost of ration. In view of that, agro-wastes with high nutritional value can be utilized to reduce the cost of their production. Agro-wastes are generally discarded despite their nutritional worth and thus, can be bioprocessed for their efficient utilization. Different qualities of agro-wastes can be identified and combined in a way to produce an economical feed. Apple pomace, spent mushroom compost and wheat straw can be naturally bioprocessed by combining them at optimum ratios to develop a feeding material. Owing to the quality and nutritional attributes, the developed product can either be used as a maize replacer or as an additive in the goat feed. The feeding trial can be conducted to evaluate their efficient utilization as a feed ingredient in the goat’s concentrate mixture or as an additive. The bioprocessing of agro-wastes into feed will not only provide an economic feeding material but would also a window to address the increasing environmental load.
Talk will cover following:
- What is need of agro-waste utilization?
- How agro-wastes can be utilized as animal feed?
- Different ways of agro-waste processing
- Natural method of agro-waste processing
- Basis on which agro-wastes can be combined by natural processing
- Role in agro-wastes in economic meat production
Audience Take Away Notes:
- Field applicability of natural processing of agro-wastes utilization.
- Points to be taken care of while combining them.
- How utilization of agro-wastes based feed can be validated for animal feed.
- Meat production parameters to be analysed while experimenting
