Use of Protein-Enriched-Cassava (PEC) Substrated Broken Rice in Piglets Diets

Abstract

The study was designed to investigate the utilization of protein-enriched cassava (PEC) by piglets. The protein-enriched-cassava was fermented by mixture of fungi (Aspergillus niger and Mucor sp). and yeast (Saccharomyces cervisiae) Twenty-eight landrace piglets (male 12, female 16) averaging 8 kg body weight were used in randomized complete bloc experiment. The piglets were fed with 0, 15, 30 and 50% PEC in 20% protein diets with 7 replicates. When the pigs were about 30 kg body weight, the pigs on the four diets had average daily gain of 493, 508, 505 and 458 g/d and feed conversion ratio were 2.24, 2.30, 2.36 and 2.48 respectively. There was no statistically-significant difference in the broken-rice in the piglet-diets but the cost of production was increased when the level of PEC was increased because of the addition of fat. Therefore, it is recommended that PEC may be used up to 30% in the diets.