The shortage of roughage in the dry
season forces farmers to use rice straw as their main
cattle feed. However, the value of this feed is limited by
its low voluntary intake, low digestibility and low
nitrogen, mineral and vitamin content. Agroindustrial
and industrial by-products such as pineapple
waste from the field or from pineapple cannery industries,
tomato waste, potato waste, molasses, distiller’s
grain waste, sweet corn peel, husk and silk and baby
corn waste are usually used by dairy farmers to feed
their cattle