Local plant ingredients use in aquafeeds: a review
The cost of fish feeds can be significantly reduced if some locally available ingredients are incorporated in feed production. While soybean and maize remain best choices as plant protein and energy sources respectively, other less popular legumes reviewed in this paper can be used as substitutes, especially as partial replacers for these nutrient sources that have high food value for human population. Their use as human food makes soybean and maize relatively costlier than the winged, Psophocarpus tetragonolobus, Aacha, (Digitaria exilis), Cassia fistula and Bamara been shown to have good replacement values in diets for fish. It is recommended that more oils seeds; legumes and nuts suitable ingredients are found that they have little value as nutrient sources for human population, their cost will be less and this will enhance the profitability of the aquaculture enterprise.
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| Format: | conference_item biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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Fisheries Society of Nigeria
2009
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| Subjects: | Aquaculture, Nigeria, Fish feed, freshwater environment, Feed, Feed composition, Feed preparation, Feeding experiments, Chemical composition, Feeding, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/38013 |
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