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ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Regional centre Bengaluru and ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bengaluru jointly organised a one day Discussion cum Demonstration meeting on ‘Mass Production of Black soldier fly for utilisation as fish feed’ at Government Fish Seed Hatchery at Peechi, Thrissur district, Kerala under the guidance of Dr. B. K. Das, Director, ICAR-CIFRI. Around 35 participants from State Department of Fisheries, Private fish hatcheries and farmers participated in the programme. Dr Preetha Panikkar, Principal Scientist & HoRC, ICAR-CIFRI Regional Centre Bengaluru and Dr. Amala Udayakumar, Scientist (Entomology) orgainsed the meeting. Mrs Joemol, Assistant Fisheries Extension Officer, Government Fish Seed Hatchery, Peechi co-ordinated to conduct of the meeting. Dr Preetha Panikkar delivered a lecture on ‘Need for alternative proteinsource in fish feed’. In her lecture she highlighted the global scenario of using insect protein in aquacultural diets and progress made in use of BSF as a protein supplement in fish feed. She also explained about the experimental results of developed BSF based feed over the growth of Tilapia, amur carp and Pangas. Dr. Amala Udayakumar delivered a lecture on ‘Mass production of Black soldier fly’ in which she explained about the life cycle of the insect, potential of different waste substrates that favours quicker multiplication of the insect. She also elaborated upon the factors affecting the multiplication and population buildup of the insect. Few participants who were involved in mass culturing of black soldier fly interacted during the programme and expressed the problems associated with the breeding. The problems related to rearing of black soldier fly like breeding of other flies in the waste bins and methods to overcome the same was discussed. The event was covered in the local daily also.
Updated on 18/12/2021
