Crop wastes and industrial processing of fruits like mango are some of the Guantanamo potential for the production of alternative food for pig farming, which improves nutrition and helps weight gain.
Crop wastes and industrial processing of fruits like mango are some of the Guantanamo potential for the production of alternative food for pig farming, which improves nutrition and helps weight gain.
Jicama, a legume cultivated by the American civilizations, is another of these sources with which farmers produce a beneficial yogurt for digestion of animals that contributes 18 percent of protein and it substitutes properties of soy.
Another resource of the province is the mapen, a fruit whose production exceeds 50 000 tons every year, most of these are still to be exploited, which is very useful to feed the pigs, says Rafael Medina González, a specialist of this technology.
Also it is essential the use of cassava root and dry corn plants, which provide necessary fibers before the decrease by more than 40 percent of aflecho used in animal feed production.
Dried ground flour made of mango also provides more than 8 percent of protein, higher value than seed obtained from industrial process, which reaches 20 percent of these key molecules for life.
In Guantanamo, science, economics, inventiveness and talent are merged in order to search for alternatives to the traditional feed production for animal husbandry, a challenge in the face of increasingly prices on the world market.
Translation: Liubis Balart Martínez