The company is expanding and plans to open a half million square foot facility in 2019 which will be “…powered by artificial intelligence and big data.”

His family has become very supportive of his career since his mother’s long-time stomach pain was cured after taking kangfuxin ye, the potion produced by Gooddoctor (made from the cockroaches), for just a month…a set of giant shiny metal tanks connected to the breeding rooms by pipes kill 6 tonnes (6.6 short tons) of cockroaches at a time with heat and extracts the essence from them…Workers operating in aseptic rooms with fingerprint door locks produce over 600,000 bottles of the healing potion each day. “The effectiveness of cockroaches has been tested by the bodies of our ancestors and proven by lab experiments,” Geng said.

As the drug made its way into thousands of Chinese hospitals over the years, the breeding factory expanded to 12,000 square metres (129,000 sq ft) from a modest 20 square metres two decades ago. And the company is poised to open a second breeding centre next year which it says will be three to five times the size of the current one, powered by artificial intelligence and big data.

Click here to read the full article “A Chinese farm is using AI to breed six billion cockroaches per year” by Alan Martin for Alphr.