Researchers partner with farmers to start edible insect breeding

A food research company has formed a partnership with some farmers in Masaka, Rakai and Lyantonde in order to rear house and bush crickets as well as grasshoppers on a big scale. This is because apart from being a delicacy, the insects offer nutritional value.

By 2017, Mr Deventer says a well established value chain from many small scale cricket rearing farms will be set up including transport, marketing and processing of the crickets to high quality healthy foods, affordable also for low income people.

“This achievement will set such a positive example, that spreading the cricket value chain for food markets in other regions and countries, for both food and feed, is expected” he says.

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