Proceedings of the 6th International Seminar of Animal Nutrition and Feed Science (ISANFS 2021)

Legume and Methane Emission Reduction in Livestock

Authors
Bambang Suwignyo1, *, Asih Kurniawati1, Medino Gedeun N. Yebron2, Amado A. Angeles2
1Department of Animal Nutrition and Feed Science, Faculty of Animal Science, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 55281
2Animal and Dairy Sciences Cluster, University of the Philippines Los Baños, Philippines 4031
*Corresponding author. Email: bsuwignyo@ugm.ac.id
Corresponding Author
Bambang Suwignyo
Available Online 11 April 2022.
DOI
10.2991/absr.k.220401.027How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Environment; forages; Methane; Ruminants; Tannin
Abstract

Legume is one of the types of high quality forages. It is available in some types of trees and shrubs. The specific thing that connotes with legume is protein content since legume can do nitrogen fixation. In regard, legumes can also be known as leaf protein sources. Legume usually also has tannin content vary around 3 – 7%. Many researchers found that protein and tannin in the legume positively impact animal production. Tannin can protect the protein from rumen degradation to become bypass protein that will be digested in the abomasum without lousy impact to the rumen ecology. Tannin also can inhibit protozoa and reduce the population of methanogenic bacteria that produce methane. Another side, a combination of high protein and tannin in the legume can be a good combination for a ruminant. For the animal, legumes with tannin content and high protein level have potency to improve animal production and reduce methane production from the rumen. Moreover, reducing methane, in this case, will impact environmental quality since methane is one of the greenhouse gas that is 21 times stronger than carbon dioxide. Feeding ruminant with legume (basal or supplementation) will have a double advantage in increasing animal production and environmental quality.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 6th International Seminar of Animal Nutrition and Feed Science (ISANFS 2021)
Series
Advances in Biological Sciences Research
Publication Date
11 April 2022
ISBN
978-94-6239-562-6
ISSN
2468-5747
DOI
10.2991/absr.k.220401.027How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press International B.V.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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