Substitution of de‐oiled rice bran with Khejri pod meal and groundnut oilcake with Khejri seed meal in the diet of Labeo rohita (Hamilton, 1822)

Abstract

Khejri, Prosopis cineraria (the king of the desert or wonder tree, or golden tree) belongs to the Fabaceae family, is native to the north-west (Haryana, Rajasthan, Punjab, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat), central (Madhya Pradesh) and southern regions (Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana) of India (Liu et al., 2012). Prosopis species are native to arid and semi-arid zones of the Americas, Africa and Asia, with several American species (Pasciecznik et al., 2004). Different workers have reported that the average production of pods from per tree is around 20-100 kg.It has variable biomass production for Prosopis pod from 113.25 to 250.0 tons/ha (Gurumurti et al., 1984;Patel, 1986). Forty-four different Prosopis species are cultivated in arid and semi-arid regions in different countries of Asian, African and American continents (Garg et al., 2020).