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Cassava reduces cost of chicken feed
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Cassava reduces cost of chicken feed
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
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Trials have been carried out in Venezuela to substitute maize in chicken feed and replace it entirely with cassava-root flour. In the trials, both bitter and sweet cassava were used. Overall results indicated that it was feasible to totally substitute cereal with bitter-cassava flour in granulated feed for fattening chickens without affecting production. Birds can tolerate high levels of cyanide, up to 150ppm. With cassava considerably cheaper than maize, this represents a very significant saving in the cost of feed production. A C Diaz de Santeliz Dept. de Investigacion y Desarrollo Alimentos Protinal Apartado de correos 83 Valencia, VENEZUELA Trials have been carried out in Venezuela to substitute maize in chicken feed and replace it entirely with cassava-root flour. In the trials, both bitter and sweet cassava were used. Overall results indicated that it was feasible to totally... |
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2014-10-08T13:40:58Z
2014-10-08T13:40:58Z 1991 |
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News Item
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CTA. 1991. Cassava reduces cost of chicken feed. Spore 32. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
1011-0054 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/45489 |
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en
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Spore, Spore 32
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CTA
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Spore
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