POTENCY, CONSTRAINT AND PROSPECT ON UTILIZING OF CROP-RESIDUES AS ANIMAL FEED

Abstract

The result of intensifying crops will result in not only more food, but also more
crop~residues. Integration between crops and livestock is an alternative to fulfil the
demand of feed needs. Supply of the crop-residues not always closely placed with
the localized cattle farming area that caused value or the cost of such by-product
becomes higher to transport in to another places. Parts of feed value criterion should
be used with the basic of crude protein content and dry matter digestibility; Some
studies have been done with objections were to find ways to use the crop-residues
for feed maximally. The reports on using the crop by-product in Indonesia are
described here, as a contribution to solve the problems of lack of roughages that
needed for balancing the increasing of ruminant productivity. Using the first
category feed such as rice straw, corn stover, sorghum straw and sugarcane tops
directly in the ration is possible only if the cattle is given another supplement and the
feed is constructed in a decent ration. Increasing of crop-residues potential is needed
with attempts that focused on biodegradation. In the rural area, many farmers done
the attempts to preserve the crop-residues, corrunonly it is only limited to drying and stocking as back up feed in the famine season. Preservation, which is an attempt to increase the feed value, has not widely known.