African Journal of
Microbiology Research

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Microbiol. Res.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1996-0808
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJMR
  • Start Year: 2007
  • Published Articles: 5233

Full Length Research Paper

Study on feed fermented from seaweed waste

Shuping Zhang1*, Xiaojian Hu2, Jie Ma1, Zhengqiang Ma3, Xiaohui Liu2 and Lei Cui1*
1College of Science, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China. 2School of Environment and Architecture, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China. 3Kashi Agricultural Center, Xinjiang, China.
Email: [email protected]

  •  Accepted: 05 December 2012
  •  Published: 28 December 2012

Abstract

This paper focuses on several factors on the effect of fermented feed from seaweed waste. The fermentation process is optimized through nutritional analysis. The study which compared the crude protein and the crude fiber resulted to an increase by 34.56% and decreased by 10.72%, respectively in seaweed feed. The findings of this study suggest that the best feed could be fermented from seaweed waste while adding 1% of microbial agents and 0.5% of corn powder, fermenting for 15 days.

 

Key words: Seaweed waste, fermentation, feed.