Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB)
Malaysia is the world’s leader and most efficient producer of palm oil and palm oil products. Palm oil and its products are classified as high energy feed which are technically and economically feasible to be used as partial replacement for corn in broiler feed. Every unit of palm oil and its components used in the […]
The advantage of energy dense fat supplements in lactation rations to enhance performance in modern dairy cows has been cited since the early 1930s but the detrimental effect on rumen fermentation, particularly fibre digestibility, required further research. Compared to triglycerides, free fatty acids, particularly unsaturated, have been shown to have increased digestibility in the small […]
Malaysia imported well over 2 million tonnes per annum of energy feed as corn in the last three years and another 1 million tonnes of protein supplement, mainly soyabean and fish meal. Well over 200 000 t of crude palm oil (CPO) were used in livestock feed. These feeds are essential items in the formulation […]
Compound feed is a mixture of feed ingredients obtained from various sources. A feed ingredient is only a constituent of a compound feed and if used as the sole ration fed, has to be enriched further. The composition of a compound feed is determined by three main criteria, i.e. price, nutritional composition and the animal […]
Palm oil is second only to soyabean oil in world production of vegetable oils, and makes up more than half of total oil exports (Gunstone, 2003). Palm fatty acid distillate (PFAD), a by-product of palm oil refining, makes up approximately 5% of the 28 million tonnes of palm oil expected to be produced in 2004. […]
In Malaysia, most of the PKC produced are from expeller extraction. Though solvent extraction is also used in the extraction of palm kernel oil but the process is costly and screw press extraction (expeller) is the rule in many palm oil processing plants. The difference in the quality of expeller PKC and solvent extracted is […]
Palm kernel cake (PKC) is the solid residue left from the extraction of oil from palm kernel. The oil is extracted from the kernel by expeller, i.e. continuous screw press, or by solvent extraction. Solvent extraction is not commonly utilized anymore because of its high cost. As a result, almost all the PKC produced in […]