3 underutilised feed ingredients for ruminants

In developing countries, animal feed ingredients can be scarce. By utilising ‘waste’ ingredients, the problem can partly be solved. But what is the nutritional value of these underutilised feed sources? Here we list 3 of them. Bananas First we take a look at bananas, a crop plant found mostly in the humid tropics. More than 32 species and 100 sub-species of banana are in existence. According to the FAO statistics (1988), the total production of bananas is 41.9 million tons per year worldwid