The Potency of Sugar Cane Waste Product for Supporting Sustainable Beef Cattle Feed Resouces at Integrated Farming Center in Solok Regency, West Sumatra

Abstract

The research was intended to study the availability and nutrient content of waste product of sugar cane (bagasse, molasse and sugar cane top) in integrated beef cattle with sugar mill and sugar cane farming. Based on the data, it was formulated the ration for beef cattle, and known the carrying capacity of the sugar cane area for supporting feedstuff for beef cattle. The methodology of research was survey, proximate analysis and linear programming. Based on the survey, it was found that the production of bagasse was 27.60 ton/Ha/year (46% of sugar cane production); molasse was 1.27 ton/ha/year (1.99% of sugar cane production); and sugar cane top was 10.57 ton/ha/year (43.42% of sugar can production). Nutrient contents of bagasse were 79.01%, 2.15%, 40.45%, 1,44%, and 50.33% for dry matter (DM), crude protein (CP), crude fiber (CF), fat (F) and nitrogen free extract (NFE) respectively. Dry matter, CP, CF, F and NFE contents of molasses were 13.29 %, 12.33%, 0.63%, 17.83% and 63.98%, respectively. The content of sugar cane top was 27.29%, 7.59%, 40.39%, 1.51% and 40.67% for those parameters, respectively. The result of ration formulation based on the nutrition content for beef cattle (CP 11 %, and TDN 62.5%) was sugar cane top 25%, bagasse 30%, molasses 5 %, and other feedstuffs 40 %. The other feed stuffs were rice brain 15 % and coconut meal 15 %, and waste of tofu 10%. The area could support fodder for 1,478, 8,403 and 398 beef cattles every year, based on availability of sugar cane top, bagasse, and molasses respectively.