Convert horticultural crops by-product into livestock feed

Nsawam, March 31, GNA - Mr Paul Siameh, District Director of Agriculture for Akuapem South on Thursday said even though livestock and poultry production is profitable it has not received the same attention as that of the horticultural crops in the Akuapem South District in the Eastern Region.
     He said one of the reasons of the low interest in livestock and poultry production in the district is the high cost of conventional and quality livestock feeding.
     Mr Siameh made the observation at a day's workshop for about 50 poultry and livestock farmers at Nsawam in the Akuapem South District.He said the Akuapem South District is well noted for the production of horticultural crops like pawpaw, pineapple and citrus but the processing of their by-products into livestock feed has become difficult because of the limited knowledge on the type and quality of feed that could be generated.
     The workshop, which was sponsored by Ghana Society of Animal Production (GSAP), provides an insight into the opportunities available for harnessing by-products from horticultural crops as well as other materials into quality livestock feed.
      It also gave farmers and extension agents the opportunity to interact with each other on the issue of livestock feeding so that old and new ideas could be shared towards the provision of quality nutrition for poultry and livestock in the Akuapem South.

31 March 07