FEEDING STRATEGY FOR BSF (RAHIMA)

 

Processing organic waste using black soldier fly technology offers a wonderful alternative for sustainable organic waste management and city sanitation. The substrates that the flies thrive in are most often agricultural food waste and refuse from food processing industries. In the larval stage they feed voraciously on a variety of organic waste and efficiently converts nitrogen compounds and carbohydrates into larval biomass.

In our laboratory we mostly receive food waste from cafeterias and farm waste for example  food scrap trimmings, left over produce, vegetable waste, mushroom waste, discarded fruit and any kind of produce in general, rice rolls, fish and chicken scrap (including bones), cereals etc. We realized that the larvae break down the waste faster when it was cut, shredded, mashed or broken up to increase the surface area and allow larvae better access to the discarded waste as it decays. Our sensei was kind enough to get us a processing machine relieving us from knife work. All laboratory members have learnt how to safely use it and I think it is really wonderful.