Waste oil palm plantations in the supply potential ruminant feed mainly during the dry season. One feed processing technologies that can be applied for preservation of waste oil palm plantations, a wafer. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of storage time on physical and nutritional quality of forage complete wafer-based waste oil palm plantations. This study uses a completely randomized design with 2 factors. The first factor is the storage time and the type of feed. Namely 2,4,6 and 8 weeks, while the second factor the use of waste oil palm plantations 0, 25,50,755 and 100%. The parameters observed are the general characteristics of the wafer, the wafer physical quality (water content, water activity, density and water absorption), while the nutritional quality (PK, SK, BETN, NDF and ADF). The results showed the storage time significantly affect the physical and nutritional quality of forage complete wafer, while the use of waste oil palm plantations showed no significant differences. It was concluded that use of waste oil palm plantations can be used up to 75% in the raw material wafer forage penyusuna complete.Copy Right, IJAR, 2017,. All rights reserved. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………....
Introduction:-Oil palm plantations in Indonesia at this time began to grow rapidly and become one of the commodities that play a role in the revenue of the country, in addition to contributing considerable plantation waste such as palm fronds, leaves and palm kernel cake. Waste oil palm plantations in the supply potential ruminant feed mainly during the dry season (Rostini, 2017). Utilization of palm fronds as animal feed can be given directly or in the form after processing. But the direct administration of the palm frond is not recommended because it can reduce the productivity of livestock Purba et al. (1997). So that needs to be done processing beforehand.One feed processing technologies that can be applied for preservation of waste oil palm plantations, a wafer. The shape of the wafer is also easy in the handling and processing, and is expected to be more resistant in storage. Feed processing wafer form using midrib, leaves and palm kernel cake is expected to increase the amount of time that can be an alternative feed to be given to cattle in the dry season or drought (Rostini et al., 2016) Verma et al., (1996) states that the manufacture of wafers is one of the alternative forms of effective storage and is expected to maintain the balance of the availability of forage. The goal is to collect forage fodder in the rainy season and store for supplies during the dry season. Storage is an attempt to protect food from damage caused by many
ISSN: 2320-5407Int. J. Adv. Res. 5(4), 1164-1170 1165 things, such as pests, microorganisms, rodents, insects, and damage to physiological or biochemical (Triyanto et al.,. 2013).Factors that affect the livestock feed material damage during storage among other physical factors such as temperature and relative humidity; biological factors such as mildew,...