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UTILIZATION OF BLACK SOLDIER FLY (HERMETIA ILLUCENS) LARVAE FOR SUSTAINABLE FOOD ANIMAL PRODUCTION AND ORGANIC FARMING

Objective

- To convert and manage wastes like poultry litter and excreta, fruit waste, bakery waste, distillers dried grains and solubles into valuable biomass (frass) by using Black soldier fly larvae (BSFL).- To ascertain the BSFL as an alternative source of protein in poultry feed.- To utilize BSFL frass as an organic fertilizer in slip production.

Investigators
Lohakare, J.; Tomberlin, JE, .; Kim, WO, KY.; Francis, SH, .
Institution
PRAIRIE VIEW A&M UNIVERSITY
Start date
2023
End date
2026
Funding Source
Nat'l. Inst. of Food and Agriculture
Project number
TEXX2022-09563
Accession number
1030270
https://portal.nifa.usda.gov/web/crisprojectpages/1030270.html