Palm fruit meal can be a good substitute for some imported livestock and poultry feed items
Palm Kernel Cake, Fat Powder and Shortening fat Powder are three products to be used in animal feed.
A meeting to discuss about the Palm Kernel Cake (PKC) was held on 3 October 2021 at Dairy Products Supportive Fund. Mr. Hisamuddin Md. Aspar, manager for Central Asia, Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran on behalf of Malaysian Palm Oil Board and Hossein Shahbaz, director of Public Relation and International Cooperation, SFIDA and 5 CEOs of Agriculture Supporting Funds on behalf of SFIDA attended the meeting.
A presentation made by Hisamuddin explained about the benefits of the PKC and mentioned that Malaysia produces almost 2.5 million tones annually and all are exported to different countries such as New Zealand, Vietnam, The Netherlands, Germany, and etc. Studies show that PKC is a good substitution to wheat and rice bran and also some part of the other meals such as Soya and cotton meals. PKC contains less (almost half) protein than Soya Meal but the price is less than 30% and it is available year round. The following table shows the compound of the PKC. It contains more fat which can increase the fat in the milk to increase the price of the milk.
| Compounds | Percent |
| Moisture | 10-12 |
| Dry materials | 90 |
| Fibers | 15-13 |
| Ether | 3.5-8.5 |
| Ash | 5 |
| Digestible Materials | 65 – 67 |
| Calcium | 0.2 |
| Fat | 6-8 |
| Crude protein | 14.5-19.5 |
| Metabolic energy in livestock feed | 10-11.5 Megajoule/Kg |
| Metabolic energy in poultry feed | 6.5-7.5 Megajoule/Kg |
It was supposed to have another meeting to discuss in detail at Livestock Development Fund office.
Finally, Hisamuddin proposed to have a trial PKC use in Animal Feed collaboratively with SFIDA. He was requested to send a proposal to SFIDA to examine it.