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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Palm Fats for Livestock Feeding

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. […]

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