Use of Palm Kernel Cake and Oil Palm By-products in Compound Feed

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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 characteristics. The nutritional composition of a compound feed varies depending on the type of livestock to be fed and on their stages of growth. This paper highlights the use of palm kernel cake (PKC) in compound feed for feeding livestock in Malaysia.

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Prices of Selected Oils and Fats in 2003 and 2004

Some oils and fats improved in their prices from 2001 until 2003 (Figure 1). Among them cottonseed oil was the leader as its price increased by more than 100% from USD 414 t-1 in 2001 to USD 895 t-1 in 2003 (Table 1). The increases in palm olein and soyabean oil prices were about 55% […]

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