Publication Date
1989
Description
Although green crop fractionation (GCF) has been shown to increase the yields of dry matter (DM) and protein per unit area of a small farm per unit time, this process has attracted very little interest in India despite over four decades of research (Joshi, 1983). This is because almost all work on GCF has been carried out with an intention to extract leaf protein (LP) for human consumption and no attempts have been made to utilise the other two products obtained in the process viz., the pressed crop (PC) and the whey which carry with them over 85 % of the DM present in the crop. The recovery of LP is not going to be economical, even in the village-scale process developed by our Group (Joshi et al., 1984), unless both PC and whey are utilized properly in ruminant feeding. The objective of the present work was to study the chemical composition and in vitro cellulase digestibility of the pulp and PC samples obtained after fractionation of 20 short-duration crops.
Citation
Joshi, R N. and Deshmukh, V R., "The Chemical Composition and Cellulase Digestibility of Pressed Crops Obtained in the Process of Green Crop Fractionation" (2025). IGC Proceedings (1989-2023). 4.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/igc/1989/session8/4
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The Chemical Composition and Cellulase Digestibility of Pressed Crops Obtained in the Process of Green Crop Fractionation
Although green crop fractionation (GCF) has been shown to increase the yields of dry matter (DM) and protein per unit area of a small farm per unit time, this process has attracted very little interest in India despite over four decades of research (Joshi, 1983). This is because almost all work on GCF has been carried out with an intention to extract leaf protein (LP) for human consumption and no attempts have been made to utilise the other two products obtained in the process viz., the pressed crop (PC) and the whey which carry with them over 85 % of the DM present in the crop. The recovery of LP is not going to be economical, even in the village-scale process developed by our Group (Joshi et al., 1984), unless both PC and whey are utilized properly in ruminant feeding. The objective of the present work was to study the chemical composition and in vitro cellulase digestibility of the pulp and PC samples obtained after fractionation of 20 short-duration crops.
