Zambia Agribusiness Society

Maggot farming is highly profitable and sustainable. Margot farming has become popular because of the high level of protein they produce in human and animal dietary. Maggots evolve from flies. They are fly larvae, usually from the common housefly. When flies lay eggs, the eggs hatch into maggots before they metamorphoses into flies. Maggots are also called grubs and can grow between 4 to 12mm in length depending on their stage of growth. Some maggot range from an off-white colour to a light brown, though some can be yellow or reddish colour. Maggots or larva metamorphose from flies. The fly of this larva are from black soldier fly. The black soldier fly (BSF) is a harmless fly and does not transmit diseases unlike the house fly. The high cost of animal feed is a major challenge for farmers. Research has shown that maggot meal of black soldier fly can be an excellent replacement for fishmeal or soybeans meal which are the main ingredient in animal feed. Maggot meal can be blended

Follow these simple steps to produce odourless maggots: Step 1: Get any plastic open container. Size should be according to quantity of maggots you want to make. Step 2: Get any substrate that are non-smelly like Rice bran, wheat offal, pkc, maize shaft from akamu, cassava shaft. These materials serves as bedding and substrate for the flies to lay their eggs. Step 3: Mix some quantity of water with sugar or molasses, then allow the mixture to stay for 24 hours covering it in a cool dry place and, Step 4: Mix this water mixture with any substrate you have chosen till it forms a mesh. Don’t waterlog the substrate. Leave the plastic containing the substrate in an isolated place, so no much disturbance. Step 5: After 3 days you will notice lots of flies around the plastic containing the substrate, but before then, make sure, daily you wet the mixture by sprinkling water to the content, so it remains in a mesh form. Note : Once the content is dry...flies will only e

Maggot meal supplemented with live maggots is a good alternative to fish meal in organic poultry production, according to new research from Aarhus University. Maggots and maggot meal have proven to be a good alternative to fish meal in organic poultry. This is the results of experiments carried out in the project BioConval, which is supported by the International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems (ICROFS). The lack of a locally grown protein feed with a sufficiently high content of sulphur-containing amino acids is a major challenge for organic poultry production. Since synthetic amino acids are not permitted in organic production, organic poultry producers rely on animal protein sources with a favourable amino acid profile such as fish meal. But fish meal is a limited resource and therefore it is important to find alternatives. The BioConval project had a twofold purpose. It was partly an experiment on composting that studied the feasibility of improving the plant-avai