Agro Waste Essay

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The agro-waste can include of sago hampas, oil palm, wheat bran, pawpaw peels, potato peels and many more. They are the most ample and renewable sources which are omnipresent nature of biomass on earth. Most of the wastes produced contains of carbons sources, nutrients and good environment for development of the microorganisms. Besides that, the agro-waste processing in solid state fermentation lead to the production of value-needed by the organism such as human, animal and plant. In most research studies, the agro-waste undergoes chemical or enzymatic hydrolysis able to convert into soluble sugars. Encyclopedia of the Nation (2013)(35*) reported that the local fruits and vegetables such as bananas, durian, pineapples and other local products …show more content…

Around 1.2 million tones of agro-waste are being get rid of by the agricultural sector each year in Malaysia. Indisputably, it is an ample challenge to manage the agro-industrial waste as one of the solid waste. Accumulation of agro-waste in surrounding areas will cause public health hazard and also cause the environment harmful if no effective action taken by the responsible agencies. One example practical steps that can be done to solve this issue is changing the “Waste into Wealth” by using the agro-waste to produce enzyme that enhance lucrative to …show more content…

When the orange getting ripe, their colour is midway between red and yellow. According to Adeleke, Odunfa, Olanbiwonninu and Owoseni (2012)(40*) found, there are pectins and celluloses which are the main polymers that need to be hydrolyzed from the orange peels. Ana et al. research (as cited in Rivas et al., 2008)(41*), they stated that the orange peels contains of soluble sugars with 16.9 % wt; starch with 3.75 % wt; fiber (cellulose with 9.21 % wt; hemicelluloses with 10.5 % wt; lignin with 0.84 % wt and pectins with 42.5 % wt), ashes with 3.50 wt; fats with 1.95 % wt and proteins with 6.50 % wt. Both of the enzymes are commercially having high price and costly. Many researchers employed this orange fruits in their work as raw material for the production of enzymes under solid-state fermentation (SSF)

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