推荐买球平台食品奖入围者

虫子对鸡、经济和环境都有好处

“我想利用更多的可用资源, affordable and sustainable feed resources to replace fish meal in the diets of chickens,”医生说。. Muyiwa Adegbenro, 家禽营养与管理高级讲师, 联邦大学, 阿库雷, 尼日利亚.

While live insects such as black solider fly larvae have been shown to be a nutritious and cost-effective replacement for soybean meal for chickens (they love to eat most bugs), 这个项目探索了新的增长方式, 过程, 把自己培育的幼虫打包，这样它们就能存活, 可扩展的鱼粉替代品.

Dr. Adegbenro的项目是2021年的决赛选手之一 推荐买球平台粮食安全创新奖, which aims to support scientific research that can deliver transformational impacts within global agriculture. 与 Agropolis基金会, the Prize recognises an innovative scientific research project for its potential impact on the availability, 可访问性, 食物的可负担性和充足性, 符合联合国可持续发展目标#2:消除饥饿. The winner will be announced this September and receive a US$75,为扩大他们已证实的研究提供了1万美元的资助.

目前, estimates show that feed cost contributes as much as 75% of the total cost of poultry production in sub-Saharan 非洲, and food waste and 过程ing residues are one component of the organic waste stream that is currently estimated at 1.每年30亿吨. 黑兵蝇很小, harmless insects that have the potential to provide promising solutions to both problems.

“Starting with organic waste in which those larvae thrive, our environmental biotechnologist studied ways to reliably produce them,” Dr. Adegbenro解释.

“一旦收获, they’re 过程ed in a low-temperature dryer that we’ve designed and fabricated, and then added to a variety of different diets to test for rearing broiler chickens, 蛋鸡, 小鸡和火鸡. 推荐几个足彩外围app正在密切关注增长, 血液及血清指标, 肉质和(适当时)蛋质.”

“Our ambition for the project is to be able to make black soldier larvae meal available and affordable in large quantities for feed millers and poultry farmers in 尼日利亚. This will reduce the cost of finished feeds for poultry birds, 为农民和饲料加工厂创造更多收入, 为青年和妇女创造就业机会, 增加肉类和鸡蛋的可获得性/可负担性, 并减少环境污染问题. The indirect impacts will be to strengthen the current Federal 政府 policy to reduce the reliance on imports for animal production.”

If you’d like to know more about this project or get involved, please contact.  Dr. Muyiwa Adegbenro，下图.

Dr. Muyiwa Adegbenro
动物生产管理处，
动物生产和卫生司，
尼日利亚阿库雷联邦科技大学.