Locally available fish feed ingredients
Locally available fish feed ingredients
To formulate the cost-effective nutritionally balanced fish feed, the identification and utilization of locally available potential feed ingredients particularly the agro-industry by-products is very important. 30 locally available conventional and non-conventional feed ingredients suitable for fish feed formulation have been identified after analysing their proximate composition. The dry matter, crude protein, ether extract, crude fibre and ash contents of these ingredients varied from 13.7 to 95.4%, 9.0 to 70.1 %, 0.5 to 35.0%, 0.4 to 31.0% and 1.9 to 40.6%, respectively.
Locally available feed ingredients
Some of the conventional and non-conventional feed ingredients used for formulating the practical diets for freshwater ornamental fishes.
Proximate composition of feed ingredients
Proximate composition (% dry matter) of some of the locally available feed ingredients.
| Ingredients | D.M. | C.P. | E.E. | C.F. | T.Ash |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fish meal | 93.80 | 42.00 | 6.00 | 6.00 | 31.50 |
| Prawn shell waste | 93.70 | 32.00 | 1.50 | 22.50 | 40.60 |
| Groundnut oil cake | 95.40 | 42.00 | 9.00 | 8.50 | 6.90 |
| Wheat bran | 89.90 | 13.90 | 4.00 | 10.50 | 6.90 |
| Cotton seed cake | 91.90 | 26.00 | 8.00 | 21.00 | 14.00 |
| Maize | 91.10 | 9.00 | 4.00 | 2.20 | 1.90 |
| Spent yeast | 94.10 | 43.00 | 0.50 | N | 7.60 |
| Azolla | 89.80 | 13.00 | 1.20 | 9.00 | 17.60 |
| Press mud | 79.70 | 9.00 | 1.50 | 3.00 | 12.00 |
| Brewary grain waste | 91.40 | 26.00 | 15.50 | 15.50 | 3.00 |
| Tur chunni | 91.30 | 12.50 | 2.20 | 31.00 | 14.00 |
| Gram chunni | 91.80 | 11.00 | 1.80 | 20.00 | 11.30 |
| Rice bran | 92.30 | 12.80 | 13.80 | 13.80 | 10.50 |
| Wheat bran | 91.30 | 12.25 | 1.80 | 10.60 | 6.90 |
| Soybean meal | 91.80 | 48.30 | 21.20 | 6.50 | 8.00 |
| Rice polish | 89.90 | 12.20 | 1.80 | 13.20 | 13.80 |
| Chicken liver | 15.20 | 66.10 | 23.50 | 2.00 | 10.40 |
| Prawn meal | 26.70 | 64.30 | 5.00 | 1.20 | 14.10 |
| Mussel meat meal | 13.71 | 57.20 | 13.40 | 1.00 | 9.40 |
| Squid meal | 11.57 | 70.10 | 5.00 | 1.10 | 10.00 |
| Oyster meal | 13.80 | 48.00 | 10.10 | 1.20 | 17.00 |
| Snail | 30.26 | 52.50 | 4.00 | 0.80 | 16.00 |
| Freshwater fish processing waste | 32.27 | 45.50 | 19.00 | 1.80 | 18.00 |
| Marine fish processing waste | 30.00 | 56.50 | 9.60 | 0.80 | 16.00 |
| Surimi by-product | 32.00 | 56.00 | 6.00 | 1.60 | 17.50 |
| Chicken offal | 29.70 | 50.75 | 35.00 | 0.60 | 13.50 |
| Earthworm | 17.25 | 49.00 | 14.00 | 0.40 | 13.20 |
Source : ICAR - Central Coastal Agriculture Research Institute
Last Modified : 12/17/2021
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