EVERYDAY IS 'MANGONIFICIENT' (Rahima)

 

It has been a wonderful mango season from December-May here in Kenya. The average proportion of this delicious fruit that goes into waste ranges between 30-50%. A huge amount of waste therefore ends up accumulating during industrial processing causing serious disposal problem. You know who gets excited at the sound of this waste? You guessed right! It’s the black soldier fly.

Ideally these useful insects would go to lay eggs in waste left lying around and these eggs would soon after turn into maggots which I’m sure you have encountered in a huge pile of garbage before. We sought to commercially utilize this waste which includes peels, kernels, leftover pulp and rejected whole mangoes which are all rich in many useful nutrients for BSF larvae.


In the picture it was a sunny day at a mango dumpsite. We collected enough waste to feed the larvae. I hope you laughed a little at the pun on the title.


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