Parent project	Sustainable poultry, aquaculture and goat farming for economic and nutritional well being of rural communities in Morobe and Madang Provinces (PIP R&D Component 2)
Project type	Study
Status sort	Current - ongoing
NARI code	U10014
Donor code	562-3101-1-22964
Funds source	PIP
Budget	PGK 15,280
Project name	Rearing Black Soldier Fly Larvae (BSFL Hermetia illucens) as an alternative source of high protein from regenerating organic farm wastes into feed for fish and chickens (Project U10008: Phase 2)
Name abbrev	BSFL for feed
Detail
NARI team lead	A. Roberts
Project team
Partners
Start date	2022/03/01
End Date	2023/11/30
Intended outcomes	Availability of a low cost protein option to supplement fish and poultry diets; improved productivity of fish and village chicken;
Planned outputs	1) BSFL processing and storage of feed requirement for on station trials with known quantities established for feeding trials with an estimated production of >500kg of fresh, dried and processed BSFL meal 2) Attaining nutritional proxies for BSFL for formulated test diets under controlled conditions for fish and chicken feeding experiments
SRF Result area
Base location	MRC
Project site list
Percent progress	50%
Project docs
Progress docs
Final Report
Technical report
Other publications
Usage / Scaling option docs
Comments
Achievement summary	Achieving mass has been a major challenge, whereas the poultry trial preparations are on schedule; getting over 300kg of dried BSFL has been the major setback. Since the project will end in March 2023, it is proposed that the project implementation plans moved till November 2023 to establish; 1. A BSFL mass production facility 2. Allow for funding to be prioritized for output 2 3. Allow for an extension to the project implementation plan 4. Postponed poultry trials to run in 2024 when there is mass available for testing.
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