NON-CONVENTIONAL FEED INGREDIENTS FOR AQUACULTURE WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO PALM KERNEL MEAL- A REVIEW

Aquaculture is the fastest growing food production sector, which fulfills half of the animal protein requirement of the world population. To meet the future protein requirement, development of formulated nutritious feed from non-conventional feed ingredients is the need of the hour. The use of formu...

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Published inJournal of aquaculture in the tropics Vol. 35; no. 1-4; pp. 27 - 39
Main Authors Sangavi, S, Betsy, C Judith
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New Delhi Prints Publications Pvt. Ltd 01.01.2020
Subjects
Agricultural economics
Agricultural wastes
Amino acids
Animal protein
Aquaculture
By products
Carp
Catfish
Diet
Feeds
Fish
Fish diets
Fish production
Fisheries
Food production
Food sources
Industrial wastes
Ingredients
Kernels
Momentum
Nutritive value
Oil wastes
Operating costs
Poultry
Proteins
Tilapia
Tropical climate
World population
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Summary:Aquaculture is the fastest growing food production sector, which fulfills half of the animal protein requirement of the world population. To meet the future protein requirement, development of formulated nutritious feed from non-conventional feed ingredients is the need of the hour. The use of formulated commercial feed in the aqua-farm accounts for about 50-60% of the total operational cost. Therefore, use of non-conventional feed ingredients is necessary to optimize the feed cost. In the recent years, agro-industry by-products derived from the agricultural crops are widely used as a feed ingredient in the formulation of aqua-feeds. One of these agro-industrial wastes is the oil palm kernel meal/ cake extracted from the oil palm industry. It is well established for ruminants as a feed ingredient. Due to its nutritional value, low cost and availability in the tropical countries, in recent times it is gaining momentum in aquaculture sector as a non-conventional feed ingredient in the fish diets which will be reviewed in this article.
ISSN:0970-0846
2229-5380
DOI:10.32381/JAT.2020.35.1-4.3