Evaluation of plant and animal products / by products as alternative protein sources to fish meal in Tilapia diets
| dc.contributor.author | Bazili, Joseph | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-06-28T16:02:20Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-06-28T16:02:20Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
| dc.description | Masters Thesis | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The study was conducted to develop practical diets in Tanzania for Nile tilapia using fish meal (FM), soybean meal (SBM), cotton seed meal (CSM), sunflower seed meal (SFSM), freshwater shrimp meal (FSM) and blood meal (BM). Eleven isonitrogenous (30g 100g-1), isolipidic (10g 100g-1) and isoenergetic (18 kJg-1) test diets were prepared; the control diet (FM) used FM (22%) and SBM (30%) as the major sources of protein. In the test diets, FM was fixed at 5%, while inclusion of SBM, CSM and SFSM varied as follows; SBM diets contained SBM at 20(SBM20), 25(SBM25) and 30(SBM30). CSM diets contained CSM at 15(CSM15), 20(CSM20) and 25(CSM25) and SFSM diets contained SFSM at 10(SFSM10), 15(SFSM15) and 20(SFSM20). Blended diet (BLEND) contained CSM and SFSM at 10% and SBM at 5%. Chemical composition was determined using standard method (AOAC, 2002). A total of 330 fingerlings with an average weight of 3.5 g were stocked at rate of 10 fish per 20 L tank. Dietary treatments were in triplicates in complete randomized design. Fish were fed for eight weeks and once a week were weighed and ration adjusted accordingly. Collected data was analysed using descriptive statistics and one way ANOVA at p<0.05. SBM, CSM, SFSM, FSM and BM had 42.3/44.6/19.5/59.1/83.1% of CP and 11.9/14.4/35.5/7.0/0.20% of CF respectively. There was no significant difference in growth between FM and CSM diets (p<0.05). Higher growth was observed in CSM diets and least in SFSM diets. Optimum growth for each ingredient was observed at CSM20, SBM25 and SFSM20. Feed utilization followed the same trend. SFSM, BLEND and CSM diets were cost-effective than FM and SBM diets (p<0.05). Long-term feeding trials using the BLEND, CSM20, SBM25 and SFSM20 diets should be done to evaluate their biological and economical performance under actual farming conditions. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology (COSTECH) | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/783 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Sokoine University of Agriculture | en_US |
| dc.subject | Plant products | en_US |
| dc.subject | Animal products | en_US |
| dc.subject | Alternative protein sources | en_US |
| dc.subject | Protein sources | en_US |
| dc.subject | Fish meal | en_US |
| dc.subject | Tilapia | en_US |
| dc.title | Evaluation of plant and animal products / by products as alternative protein sources to fish meal in Tilapia diets | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |