Effect of lime treatment of olive meal on in vitro utilization of total mixed ration containing olive meal as partial maize replacer

Introduction [1]. It is a rough ligno-cellulosic feed characterized by high percentage of crude fibre (CF), particularly rich in Olive (Olea europaea) production is distributed lignin, low crude protein (CP) [4] but having a over all the five continents. It is especially important in surprisingly high oil percentage [2]. Further, many the Mediterranean area, Spain being first as regards workers have shown its poor digestive utilization in total cultivable area and number of productive trees. ruminants. This may be attributed to decrease in Both olive tree culture and olive oil industry produce activity of the rumen microflora by 40 per cent after large amounts of by-products. Olive meal is a ingestion of crude olive meal [5]. A researcher [2] promising unconventional feed stuff [1], which is reported that crude olive meal can replace 25% of available at very cheap prices near olive oil extraction maize from goat's ration, without compromising the plants and has potential to partially replace maize from health, nutrient intake and body weight maintenance of the ration of ruminants [2,3]. Olive oil industry adult male goats, however, when replacement levels produces large amounts of various byproducts. It has higher than 25% were tested in vitro, significant been estimated, that olive oil industry produces 25 kg decline in dry matter degradability was noted. Various of crude olive meal per 100 kg of raw olive fruit. About theories have been advanced to explain the reason for 400 hectares of land is under olive plantation in Jammu poor digestibility. High fat content, its composition and province, which produces about 9 metric tons of olive ligno-cellulosic nature of olive meal have been meal, which is available from olive oil extraction mills suggested as the incriminating factors. A study [4] located at Doda and Ramban of Jammu province [2]. suggested that there is the same phenomenon of Olive meal is a promising unconventional feed stuff “protection” of carbohydrates related to lignin with olive meal as occurs with straw and when olive meal was treated with alkalis it's in vitro digestibility increased by almost four times. Keeping this background in view,