WOCAT SLM Technology: “Small-Scale Nutrient-Dense Pellet Production [Tunisia]”

Compressing agro-industrial by products into nutrient dense livestock feed pellets is a worthwhile innovation to compete with expensive and imported feed pellets. This innovation consists of a small-scale compressor 'pelletizer' and formulas to create qualitatively sufficient feed pellets with local a...

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Main Authors: Rudiger, Udo, Dhehibi, Boubaker, Elayed, Monia, Zaiem, Anis, Idoudi, Zied, Frija, Aymen
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Published: The Global Database on Sustainable Land Management (SLM) of WOCAT 2022
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/134982
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author Rudiger, Udo
Dhehibi, Boubaker
Elayed, Monia
Zaiem, Anis
Idoudi, Zied
Frija, Aymen
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Elayed, Monia
Frija, Aymen
Idoudi, Zied
Rudiger, Udo
Zaiem, Anis
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Dhehibi, Boubaker
Elayed, Monia
Zaiem, Anis
Idoudi, Zied
Frija, Aymen
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description Compressing agro-industrial by products into nutrient dense livestock feed pellets is a worthwhile innovation to compete with expensive and imported feed pellets. This innovation consists of a small-scale compressor 'pelletizer' and formulas to create qualitatively sufficient feed pellets with local available inputs. In Tunisia, there are many agro-pastoralists that are dependent on expensive and imported livestock feed pellets to improve livestock quality and to supplement fodder shortages. Risks of relative food shortages are likely to increase due to climate change. Also, there are many discarded by-products from (local) agro-food supply chains such as olive cakes and cactus pe el, which still contain nutrients. The International Center of Agricultural Research in Dry Area saw an opportunity in the two above-explained issues and tested imported small scale pelletizing machines which were able to compress nutritious by-products into pellets. These machines are imported via Juhaina company and available for Tunisian farmers. In addition to the machine, ICARDA experimented with feasible inputs and different ratios, considering local availability as well. It achieved highly dense and nutritious feed pellets from local available inputs, with similar or better quality than the imported pellets.
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spelling CGSpace1349822026-01-22T08:51:45Z WOCAT SLM Technology: “Small-Scale Nutrient-Dense Pellet Production [Tunisia]” Rudiger, Udo Dhehibi, Boubaker Elayed, Monia Zaiem, Anis Idoudi, Zied Frija, Aymen livestock feed production animal feed integrated crop-livestock systems goats sheep cattle camel small scale machinery feed pellets local products alternative feed by-products valorization Compressing agro-industrial by products into nutrient dense livestock feed pellets is a worthwhile innovation to compete with expensive and imported feed pellets. This innovation consists of a small-scale compressor 'pelletizer' and formulas to create qualitatively sufficient feed pellets with local available inputs. In Tunisia, there are many agro-pastoralists that are dependent on expensive and imported livestock feed pellets to improve livestock quality and to supplement fodder shortages. Risks of relative food shortages are likely to increase due to climate change. Also, there are many discarded by-products from (local) agro-food supply chains such as olive cakes and cactus pe el, which still contain nutrients. The International Center of Agricultural Research in Dry Area saw an opportunity in the two above-explained issues and tested imported small scale pelletizing machines which were able to compress nutritious by-products into pellets. These machines are imported via Juhaina company and available for Tunisian farmers. In addition to the machine, ICARDA experimented with feasible inputs and different ratios, considering local availability as well. It achieved highly dense and nutritious feed pellets from local available inputs, with similar or better quality than the imported pellets. 2022-12-30 2023-12-04T20:10:15Z 2023-12-04T20:10:15Z Internal Document https://hdl.handle.net/10568/134982 en Open Access The Global Database on Sustainable Land Management (SLM) of WOCAT Udo Rudiger, Boubaker Dhehibi, Monia Elayed, Anis Zaiem, Zied Idoudi, Aymen Frija. (30/12/2022). WOCAT SLM Technology: “Small-Scale Nutrient-Dense Pellet Production [Tunisia]”. Germany: The Global Database on Sustainable Land Management (SLM) of WOCAT.
spellingShingle livestock
feed production
animal feed
integrated crop-livestock systems
goats
sheep
cattle
camel
small scale machinery
feed pellets
local products
alternative feed
by-products valorization
Rudiger, Udo
Dhehibi, Boubaker
Elayed, Monia
Zaiem, Anis
Idoudi, Zied
Frija, Aymen
WOCAT SLM Technology: “Small-Scale Nutrient-Dense Pellet Production [Tunisia]”
title WOCAT SLM Technology: “Small-Scale Nutrient-Dense Pellet Production [Tunisia]”
title_full WOCAT SLM Technology: “Small-Scale Nutrient-Dense Pellet Production [Tunisia]”
title_fullStr WOCAT SLM Technology: “Small-Scale Nutrient-Dense Pellet Production [Tunisia]”
title_full_unstemmed WOCAT SLM Technology: “Small-Scale Nutrient-Dense Pellet Production [Tunisia]”
title_short WOCAT SLM Technology: “Small-Scale Nutrient-Dense Pellet Production [Tunisia]”
title_sort wocat slm technology small scale nutrient dense pellet production tunisia
topic livestock
feed production
animal feed
integrated crop-livestock systems
goats
sheep
cattle
camel
small scale machinery
feed pellets
local products
alternative feed
by-products valorization
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/134982
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