Agro-industrial wastes and their utilization using solid state fermentation: a review

• Published in: Bioresources and bioprocessing Vol. 5; no. 1; pp. 1 - 15
• Main Authors: Sadh, Pardeep Kumar, Duhan, Surekha, Duhan, Joginder Singh
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.01.2018; Springer Nature B.V; SpringerOpen
• Subjects: Agricultural wastes; Agro-industrial wastes; Animal feed; Antibiotics; Antioxidants; Bioactive compounds; Biochemical Engineering; Biofuels; Biogas; Biotechnological approaches; Chemistry; Chemistry and Materials Science; Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology; Fermentation; Industrial and Production Engineering; Industrial wastes; Microorganisms; Oil cakes; Raw materials; Refining Bioresources for Sustainable Future; Residues; Review; Reviews; Solid state; Solid state fermentation; Tempeh; Vitamins; Wastes; Agro-industrial wastes; Oil cakes; Biotechnological approaches; Bioactive compounds; Solid state fermentation
• ISSN: 2197-4365; 2197-4365
• DOI: 10.1186/s40643-017-0187-z

Agricultural residues are rich in bioactive compounds. These residues can be used as an alternate source for the production of different products like biogas, biofuel, mushroom, and tempeh as the raw material in various researches and industries. The use of agro-industrial wastes as raw materials can help to reduce the production cost and also reduce the pollution load from the environment. Agro-industrial wastes are used for manufacturing of biofuels, enzymes, vitamins, antioxidants, animal feed, antibiotics, and other chemicals through solid state fermentation (SSF). A variety of microorganisms are used for the production of these valuable products through SSF processes. Therefore, SSF and their effect on the formation of value-added products are reviewed and discussed.