Legume and Methane Emission Reduction in Livestock

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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TY  - CONF
AU  - Bambang Suwignyo
AU  - Asih Kurniawati
AU  - Medino Gedeun N. Yebron
AU  - Amado A. Angeles
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/04/11
TI  - Legume and Methane Emission Reduction in Livestock
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th International Seminar of Animal Nutrition and Feed Science (ISANFS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 128
EP  - 133
SN  - 2468-5747
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/absr.k.220401.027
DO  - 10.2991/absr.k.220401.027
ID  - Suwignyo2022
ER  -