Molasses, a by-product of sugar production; syrupy liquid of dark brown color with a specific smell. In Europe and Russia is used in feeding farm animals. Molasses is a carbohydrate feed, a good means for curbing coarse and concentrated feed.

With the addition of molasses a lot of feed is made. When granulating feed it is used as a binding ingredient. It is a valuable raw material for biotechnological industries. From molasses, by its fermentation, ethyl alcohol, citric, butyric, propionic, gluconic, fumaric, oxalic and acetic acids are obtained.

A valuable secondary product of sugar production is molasses, the chemical composition of which contains many useful substances, which ensures its full involvement in economic circulation. It serves as the main raw material for the production of baking yeast. According to the technological regulations, the consumption of molasses for the production of 1 ton of yeast is about 1.5 tons, and the total annual demand for molasses for yeast production is 250-260 thousand tons.

In addition, sugar beet molasses is the raw material for the production of the valuable feed amino acids lysine and methionine. The technology is based on microbiological synthesis by cultivating bacteria of the genus CORYNEBACTERIUM.

Also molasses is widely used as an additive to animal feed, for the enrichment of dried pulp, as well as for the production of alcohol, food acids, lysine, and other products. The value of molasses as feed is based on the high content of sucrose in its composition.

Molasses is used for the preparation of animal feed, mixtures with other feed, especially with straw. Molasses dry matter contains up to 58% sugar, and 100 kg molasses contains 77 feed units and 4.5 kg of digestible protein.

The advantages of adding molasses to feed:

- obtaining cost-effective high quality feed;

- nutritional compensation of protein deficiency in green fodder;

- improving the taste of raw food;

- increase in milk yield and its fat content;

- balancing the ratio of nutrients in the feed;

- saving oats and preventing colic in horses;

- saving of crushed corn, vegetable and grain feeds for fattening pigs;

- prevention of diseases caused by micronutrient deficiencies;

- bridging the gap in the natural agricultural circuit: field-feed-animal-manure-field and the associated better use of manure, since mineral compounds, trace elements and other substances return to the soil.