Bioconversion of agricultural and industrialised waste to generate valuable products

Daniel Elijah Ngbede,Mordecai Gana,Usman Ahmadu,Friday Attah

doi:10.21472/bjbs.061411

Abstract

Agro and industrial wastes are rich in bioactive compounds. These wastes can be used as an alternate source for the production of different valuable products as the raw material in various industries. The use of agro-industrial wastes as raw materials can help to reduce the production cost and also reduce the pollution load from the environment. Agro-industrial wastes are used for manufacturing of enzymes, biofertilizer, biofuel, antibiotics, and other chemicals through solid state fermentation (SSF). A variety of microorganisms are used for the production of these valuable products through SSF processes. This reviewed work was aimed at bioconversion of agricultural and industrial wastes to generate valuable products.

Highlights

Agricultural waste represents one of the most important crops of the humid tropics, with a global annual production of more than 250 million tons (Akaranta, 2006)
Africa produces more than half of this global supply with the annual production from Nigeria alone representing more than a third of the total African output
Agricultural wastes could serve as a potential valuable resource for industrial exploitation in the production of several value-added products such as organic acids, flavour and aroma compounds, microbial enzymes, biofertilizers, biofuel and many others industrial product that can enhance the socio-economic development of any nation (Salihu et al, 2011)

Summary

Introduction

Agricultural waste represents one of the most important crops of the humid tropics, with a global annual production of more than 250 million tons (Akaranta, 2006). Agricultural crop has many important industrial uses including serving as raw materials for the food, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries. Despite the large amounts of wastes generated, this rich organic material has received very little attention as a low-cost by-product and is usually discarded and allowed to be decomposed by microorganisms such as bacteria and fungi, without any value added products.

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