Enzyme Production For Ruminant Diets Using Common Agricultural By Products

Low productivity of milk in India and other developing countries could be attributed to the low nutrient density and poor digestibility of the agricultural by-products of conventional and un-conventional origin. This book on Enzyme production for ruminant diets using common agricultural by products has been written and published considering the necessity to understand and introduce technological alternatives to improve nutrient availability and their utilization by farm animals to improve their productivity without markedly increasing the feed cost. Addition of exogenous enzymes to make the feed materials more easily digestible was one such approach. Solid State Fermentation system (SSF) has emerged as a potential means to upgrade the nutritive value of such animal feed. The SSF system using fungal treatment was successfully adopted in the ‘ Karnal Process’ for improving the quality of crop residues. The book is aimed at presenting the means and methods that can be adopted to produce enzymes at farm gate level using high fibrous feeds and agricultural waste. This book would be useful not only to the undergraduate and post graduate students studying animal nutrition but also to progressive and enterprising farmers engaged in dairy animal production.