Improvement of The Nutritive Value of Groundnut Hulls

Abstract

The objective of this study was to Improve the nutritive value of groundnut hulls and comparative between the chemical composition of untreated groundnut hulls (UGH) and treated groundnut hulls (TGH) by three ways of treatments for different durations. Treatment A: groundnut hulls with water - Treatment B: groundnut hulls with water and urea - Treatment C: groundnut hulls with water , urea and molasses This treatments was replicated three time for each and ensiled in plastic bags and stored under shade for three periods (two, three and four weeks). The samples collected from each treatments during the experiments were analyzed for their proximate components according to (A.O.A.C .1999), The analyses were concerned the determination of dry matter (DM), fat content (Fat), crude protein (CP), crude fiber (CF), ash content (Ash), nitrogen free extract (NFE) and metabolisable energy (ME). The result showed that there were a significant (p<0.05) differences between treatments; whereas, the decreased in DM content was lower with TC 84.10% at 4th week , compared with control 92.90% and decreased in FAT content was lower with TA 0.040% at 3rd week compared with control 0.68% and increased in CP content was greater with TB 13.81% at 4th week compared with control 4.99% and decreased in CF content was lower with TC 24.11% at 2nd week compared with control 35.17% and increased in Ash content was greater with TC 9.40% at 4th week compared with control 5.66% and increased in NFE was greater with TC 40.36% at 2nd week compared with control 46.41% and increased in ME was greater with TC 8.52 kcal/kg at 2nd week compared with control 9.07 kcal/kg.