Use flies to turn waste into food for pets

According to a reporter in Pretoria, AgriProtein recently started construction of a fly farm on the first industrial scale in Cape Town, South Africa.

This is the result of a research project to turn waste into protein that the company has collaborated with scientists at the Department of Animal Nutrition at Stellenbosch University (South Africa) in the past 5 years - an idea It is considered to be able to revolutionize the global animal feed market.

After completion and operation in 2015, this 11 million USD fly camp in Cape Town is expected to produce 7 tons of MagMeal (Maggot Meal - maggot feed), 3 tons of MagOil (maggot oil) and 20 tons of MagSoil (maggots fertilizer) every day.

Photo: lancaster.unl.edu

MagMeal is a very good food for fish and especially chicken. In addition, this is a sustainable food source, helping to protect the environment and preserving the source of caught seafood as food for pets.

To achieve such a large yield, AgriProtein will feed about 8.5 billion flies and feed the maggots from their eggs to eat organic waste which is abundant in practice - including leftovers or real expired products, wastes from slaughterhouses, animal wastes .

These larvae are then harvested and dried into a natural food, named and registered with the MagMeal brand. This production process also produces a nutrient-rich oil (MagOil) and fertilizer (MagSoil).

Agriprotein said it will deploy a license to recycle nutrients for animals this way worldwide in 2015.

"In the near future, we will see that recycling recycling waste is just as common as recycling paper, metal or glass," an official of the company said.