Assessment of Agro-Industrial by-Products for Animal Feed Supply in North Gondar Zone, Ethiopia

The assessment was partially assessed as per the syllabus prepared by Sustainable Resources Management Program of North Gondar Zone (SRMP-NG) financed by Austrian Government. The assessment was conducted in six randomly selected districts of North Gondar zone. The objectives of the study were; to assess and estimate the existing agro-industrial by-product feed for dairy, beef cattle and feedlot operators, to depict the feed stocks used for ration formulation used to the different function of animals and to measure both oil seed cakes and powdery mill by-products (brans) in the study area. The assessment result was showed that, Gondar town was found to be the highest potential for agro-industrial by-product feed accounts about 560106 and 493436 quintal. The reason might be due to the availability of large number of feed processing factories in the town but bran could not found any other districts other than Gondar town. Grain milling factories produces bran were found in Gondar town and supplies feed to different function of animals. The other produced very minimal due to factory owners are argumentative on the current tax set by the government which, is beyond the production capacities of the factories.