Potential and Utilization of By-Products of Oilseeds in Animal Feed Industry
P. Chitra
Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Tamil Nadu (647 661), India
DOI: NIL
Keywords: Feed, Livestock, Oil seeds, Poultry
Abstract
Oilseeds are important in animal nutrition as they are used in animal feed. Traditionally oilseeds are valued only for oil content. The commercial importance of proteins in oilseed meals was recognized in early 60’s. Oil industries, in addition to supplying oil, started providing protein rich meal for animal feed. Vegetable proteins from oilseeds like groundnut, coconut, gingely, rape/ mustard, sunflower, sesame, soybean and other are used as an animal feed. Because of economic and nutritional reasons (e.g., a better price can be obtained by making the oilseeds available to the human food market, and the presence of naturally occurring toxic compounds and ant nutrients), only a small proportion of oilseeds are fed to animals as whole seeds. However, oilseed meal, which is a by-product of processing the seeds for oil, is used extensively in animal feeds and is therefore an important economic aspect of oilseed production.
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