Prospects and techniques of Tenebrio Molitor Culture

Tenebrio Molitor breeding is a new type of aquaculture with low input and high output. It has the characteristics of saving land, grain, water, energy, space and manpower. Suitable for different regions, different environments, all kinds of people, all kinds of conditions. Factory farms with a certain scale can also solve the social problem of local laid-off re-employment, that is, the loss of idle labor in local rural areas. in addition, Tenebrio Molitor has very high edible value and medicinal value. Tenebrio Molitor can be directly used as high-protein fresh feed for carnivores with high nutritional value. It can also extract substances of beauty products from Tenebrio Molitor, produce high-quality edible oil, health product additives, cosmetic additives and transformer oil, etc. in the international market, Tenebrio Molitor has been in short supply, with good market prospects and broad breeding prospects.

I. advantages of Tenebrio Molitor Culture

1. Amateur profits

The breeding of Tenebrio Molitor has the advantages of low labor intensity, simple operation and easy management. it does not take up the working time during the day and can be fed at night. Can be raised in urban and rural housing, balconies, corners or simple greenhouses

2. Wide range of feed. Yellow powder insects feed on wheat bran, rice bran, corn husk, soybean meal, crop straw, green vegetables, rice vines, wine lees and so on. They can be found everywhere in rural areas and need to be fed only once every 3-5 days. Wooden boxes and wooden frames are available for raising utensils.

3. The living condition of Tenebrio Molitor is very low and its adaptability is strong. It is characterized by fear of heat, not cold, and low requirements for temperature and humidity. As long as we pay attention to cooling and dehumidification in summer and heat preservation and ventilation in winter, we can raise them all the year round.

4. The feeding equipment of Tenebrio Molitor is simple. As long as it is a container, there are pots, jars, boxes, boxes, etc., such as wooden cases, cartons, water tanks, washbasins, etc.; plus some sieves, there are 12, 30, 60 mesh sieves, 12 mesh large hole sieves, for screening eggs. 30 mesoporous sieves are used to screen large insect droppings, and 60 meshes are used to screen small insect droppings.

5. it is easy to breed without epidemic disease. Tenebrio Molitor does not spread epidemic disease, breeding does not need epidemic prevention, the content of feeding technology is low, farmers are not restricted by culture, and everyone can raise successfully.

6. Grow faster and reproduce more. The growth cycle of Tenebrio Molitor is 2-3 months. Each female can lay more than 2000 eggs. It can reproduce quickly and amazingly. It is lax in temperature, humidity and other environmental conditions. It can grow normally at 15 ℃-32 ℃.

7. Policy encouragement. The Tenebrio Molitor breeding project is included in the national harvest plan of agriculture, animal husbandry and fishery and the Spark Program, and the state has a lot of preferential encouragement and support policies.

2. Economic value of Tenebrio Molitor

1. Edible value. Tenebrio Molitor contains a large number of chitin, antimicrobial peptide defensins and exogenous lectins that have a special effect on the human body, as well as nine essential amino acids and proteins and high-protein edible additives. Free amino acids, vitamins, mineral elements, unsaturated fatty acids and other nutrients, and consistent with the normal proportion of the human body, it is easy to be absorbed and utilized by the human body. Tenebrio Molitor fresh insect body or defatted protein as raw materials for the development of food, beverages, condiments. Green nutrition, high protein content, rich nutrition, good taste and unique flavor.

The nutritional value of Tenebrio Molitor is very high. The protein content of larva, pupa and adult is 51%, 57% and 61% respectively, and the fat content is 30%. It also contains a variety of minerals such as phosphorus, iron, potassium, calcium and sodium, as well as 16 kinds of amino acids needed for animal growth. It is the best food for animals such as livestock, poultry, fish, scorpion, soft-shelled turtle and snake, and its nutritional value is about twice that of fish meal. The feeding effect shows that Tenebrio Molitor can be directly used as high-protein fresh feed for carnivores. Used for raising frogs, soft-shelled turtles, scorpions, centipedes, ants, high-quality fish, bird watching, medicinal animals, precious fur animals and rare livestock and poultry. It can accelerate the growth speed, increase the reproduction quantity, enhance the disease resistance and improve the survival rate of animals. It is reported that feeding broilers with 3%, 6% fresh yellow powder insects instead of the same amount of fish meal increased the weight gain rate by 13% and the feed reward by 23%. Feeding pigs with yellow powder insects has smooth fur, ruddy complexion and fast fat gain, and the feeding period can be shortened by 1 month. The Chinese forest frog was fed with yellow powder insects. Sold in two years, the commodity is good and the benefit is high. It is the main feed for artificial breeding of Rana chensinensis. In addition, Tenebrio Molitor is also a good bait for fishing and feeding ornamental birds, and fishing gear shops and flower-and-bird markets are very scarce.

2. Medicinal value. The yellow powder insect is covered with treasures, and the bones, sheath wings, larval epidermis and pupa shells of adults can be used as medicine, which contains a variety of elements necessary for the human body, and has significant effects on anti-cancer and relieving radiotherapy and chemotherapy. it has obvious effects on improving human immunity, anti-fatigue, delaying aging, reducing blood lipids, eliminating facial wrinkles, and promoting cholesterol metabolism. A variety of effective elements can be extracted from the body and made into a variety of health products.

In addition, Tenebrio Molitor can also extract beauty products from Tenebrio Molitor, produce high-quality edible oil, health product additives, cosmetic additives and transformer oil, and so on. Tenebrio Molitor has been in short supply in the international market.

Market prospect of Tenebrio Molitor

China is not only the largest country in poultry and livestock farming, but also a big country in feed consumption and production, and there is a huge demand for feed additives. Because of its easy breeding, low investment and quick effect, Tenebrio Molitor has been listed by the Ministry of Agriculture as national agriculture, animal husbandry, fishing,

A bumper harvest plan. The nutritional value of one kilogram of Tenebrio Molitor is equivalent to that of 25 kilograms of wheat bran, 20 kilograms of mixed feed and 100 kilograms of green feed. It is known as the "treasure house of protein feed". The annual global demand for protein feed additives amounts to 800 million tons, which can only meet 50% of the market demand. There is still a huge gap. From this, it can be seen that the prospect of Tenebrio Molitor is broad.

The deep processing products of Tenebrio Molitor have a wide range of applications. Tenebrio Molitor is a high-quality protein feed instead of fishmeal, its nutritional composition is comparable to that of imported high-quality fishmeal, but the production cost is far lower than fishmeal; Tenebrio Molitor is a high-quality edible oil, health care products added oil, cosmetic additives and transformer oil. Food, beverages and condiments developed with fresh insect body or defatted protein as raw materials continue to emerge, such as Tenebrio Molitor compound supplements and so on. Some large enterprises are optimistic about insect protein food and actively participate in the development. Since the scientific research achievements of comprehensive development and utilization of Tenebrio Molitor resources in Shandong Agricultural University have been published to quickly produce canned samples of Tenebrio Molitor pupae in order to investigate the market and order, Tenebrio Molitor slough is a high-quality raw material for the production of chitin, its calcium content is much lower than that of shrimp and crab shell, and the difficulty of processing is greatly reduced. Chitin has a broad application prospect in the fields of functional food, medical products, health products and environmental protection materials, textile, degradation film production and so on. Tenebrio Molitor manure is a good organic fertilizer and can also be used as roughage to feed livestock and poultry.

Relevant experts predict that the large-scale production of insect pupae for food is a new industry after vegetables and poultry eggs, which has created a leading city of new energy and is a new project of the vegetable basket project in our country. it will be an effective way for people in urban and rural areas of our country to get rich. Insect pupae are favored by consumers because of their pure nature, no pollution, delicious fragrance, high nutritional value and unique nourishing effect. Some large supermarkets have sold in bulk.

The most important feature of the insect pupa is its fresh fragrance. " Fried cicada "," wild bee kernel "," fried grasshopper "," scorpion climbing snow mountain "and" rinsing scorpion "each have their own flavor. The custom of taking silkworm pupae as food has gradually taken root in the hearts of the people. A kind of bread worm that can be used for artificial breeding is so popular recently that it can be eaten everywhere in hotels in Tai'an, Shandong Province. Perhaps under the influence of Shandong people, the national style of eating insects and pupae has spread from Qingdao and Jinan in Shandong, and the price of insect pupae in various places has been rising. Fried insect pupae in the New Century Hotel in Beijing have been sold for 138 yuan. In Beijing's Dazhong City, Baliqiao, Xinfadi and other agricultural and sideline product markets, the price of bread pupae is 48-60 yuan, and 78 yuan per kilogram of bread pupae in Tongchuan Road Aquatic Market in Shanghai. And often out of stock.

With the continuous improvement of people's living standards, people's consumption concept has undergone a fundamental change, from eating flavor, eating fresh, eating game, eating natural, has developed to eating strange, eating special nutrition. According to relevant expert studies, insect pupae contain not only a large number of chitin, antimicrobial peptide defensins and exogenous lectins that have a special effect on the human body, but also rich in nine essential amino acids and proteins, free amino acids, vitamins, mineral elements, unsaturated fatty acids and other nutrients, which are consistent with the normal proportion of the human body, and can be easily absorbed and used. Insect food will be a fully nutritious food for human beings in the 21st century, and there is a huge space for development.