Whoa, comrade…nice.
Russian company ZooProtein is currently shaping up its technology of re-processing waste from poultry farms into protein-rich biomass for the further use in animal feed, Alexey Istomin, the company’s deputy Chief Development Officer told Poultry World exclusively. Having spent several years analysing studies dedicated to the use of flies in animal feed, including those found in the archives of Soviet scientific organisation, the company’s heads eventually decided to become pioneers of this business in the country.
ZooProtein plans to enter the market of not only chicken feed, but also of unconventional poultry feed, including ducks, turkey, quail and so on. Also use in pig feed and feed for valuable fish species is on the radar. At the same time, the processed substrate, when the larvae is separated after harvesting, can be used as a mineral fertiliser…
