Central Province poultry farm halves feed costs with black soldier fly, wins Innovation PNG award
Valana Poultry BSF Integrated Agro Farm, near Port Moresby, turns kitchen scraps and manure into larvae feed and says it now saves up to 50 per cent on stock feed.
PNG moves toward a national standard for black soldier fly farming
NARI and NISIT are working on a national BSF standard after PNG researchers, including a team from Edai Town, trained at Kenya's icipe.
Pacific neighbours scale up: Fiji’s fly-feed trials enter phase two as Vanuatu builds capacity
Fiji says its black soldier fly trials have cut waste and produced fertiliser, while an ACIAR-funded project trains Vanuatu farmers. Both offer lessons for PNG.
Bigger is greener: industry leaders say scale is shrinking insect protein’s carbon footprint
Innovafeed and Protix report that industrial-scale black soldier fly production can beat fishmeal and soy on carbon. Here is what the numbers say.