Our research study uses water hyacinth with molasses as alternative feed for pigs and commercial feeds. We aimed to compare the effect of the two feeds on the weight of the two pigs and which is more efficient to be used. We came up with using water hyacinth as a feed for pigs from the data we have gathered by computing the mean mass gains of the pigs after being fed at a given time. We used wter hyacinth to solve the problem of the over population of these aquatic macrophytes causing the clogging of drainage systems and crating a disturbed breeding ground for fresh water fishes. Also, the problem of the rising of the prices of commodities that is likely affecting the prices of animal feeds is aimed to be solved by our research study because it cost pig raisers a big amount of money in pursuing their business of raising pigs.

We, the reserchers came up an answer to this problems of the society by including water hyacinth feeds into our alternative feeds for pigs by chopping and mixing it with molasses. To make this a successful one, the researchers came up a scientific set-up where the pigs were fed with the water hyacinth with molasses in a mixed and computed diet for them and was mixed with commercial feeds while the remaining pig was fed with pure commercial feeds. The measurement of the amount of molasses and chopping some parts of water hyacinth was done in the Chemistry Lab of UP High. The amount of molasses depended on the amount of water hyacinth of the whole feed since 20% of the mass of the water hyacinth is the mass of the molasses.The researchers applied a statistical treatment which was the t-test of uncorrelated means since the variables in the study were not related to each other. The results gathered from the study showed that the water hyacinth feeds mixed with the commercial feeds showed a comparable effect to the mass of the pigs as compared with the commercial feeds alone. This result implies that water hyacinth can be used as substitute feeds for pigs. In just using this study, the researchers can control the over population of water hyacinth and solve the problems of hog raisers in their financial aspect. With these things, our study will be very significant and useful to aqua culturists and hog raisers.