Cocoa bean meal, cocoa bean shells, and cocoa pod husks are all potential but unexploited nutritive resources that can be considered as animal feed materials. Cocoa by-products have been reported as one of such nonconventional feed resources that can replace expensive and competitive conventional feed resources in livestock diets. One of such strategies is the use of alternative or nonconventional feed resources. More than half of the production cost is associated with feeds and feeding alone hence, it becomes imperative for livestock production science to explore lesser known or poorly exploited resources for use in animal feeds and feeding systems to reduce cost and increase productivity. High cost of feeds and feeding management remain unresolved challenges facing livestock production globally specifically in developing countries.
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