Proximate Composition of On Farm Formulated Fish Diets from Locally Available Ingredients West and North Gojjam Zone, Ethiopia

Formulated diets are very necessarily for fish growth and meat quality. The study was conducted to investigate proximate composition, on farm formulate diet from locally available ingredients and tested by (AOAC, 2019) methods in triplication. On farm formulated experimental diet were four (diet1, diet1, diet 3 and dite4). The percentage of crude protein and crude lipid different in diet formulation ranged from (31.36. ±0.47,32.92±0.0.59) and (7.31. ±0.17-11.37±0.28) respectively. The highest crude fiber content (10.75±.0.63) was recorded from formulated diet 2 and the lowest diet 4 (5.24±0.29) was recorded formulated diet4. From formulated diets, there were no significance difference in crude protein, moisture and dry matter at (P>0.05) but there were highly significance different crude lipid, ash, crude fiber, energy and carbohydrate (P<0.05). From the four on farm formulated diets pumpkin seed based was floater than the others but haricot bean based on farm formulate diet was lower than others in floating in water surface. On farm formulated diets were applied based on their proximate analyses profile to minimize the cost and also contributing to sustainable aquaculture production and improved food security in Ethiopia. Based on the result of study, on farm formulated diets were alien international standards so fish farmers. customers and investor should be used on farm formulated diets their fish farm. On farm formulated diets were preferable by Nile Tilapia therefore, future research work will be focus on farm formulated diets which are not addressed by this work.