Economic study of the use of some agricultural wastes as non-traditional feeds

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1 Institute of Environmental Studies and Research, Ain Shams University

2 National Research Centre.

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The study aimed the development of livestock numbers on the level of Egypt and the province of Beheira. It was found the relative importance of the number of cattles the level of Beheira, to maintain about 12.14% of the total number of cows on the level of Egypt (about 4.5 million head). The numbers of buffalo reached to about 10.1% of the total numbers of Buffalo (3.8 million head in Egypt) during the study period in average. The study also showed that the availability of green fodder exceeds the needs of which about 17 million tons during the period (2010-2013), where it is a green fodder needing about 68% at the level of Egypt, while the requirement of green fodder at the level of Beheira toward the province of 62.3% of the available during the period, while the deficit of concentrated feed was about 7.1 million tons at the level of Egypt and 750 thousand tons at the level of Beheira province during the period (2010-2013).
As the volume of total agricultural wastes (rice straw, corn stover) about 8.9 million tons nationwide, including Beheira, which  represented about 10.9% of the amount (968 600 tons).
 

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