Life Sciences & Biotechnology
Title : | Production of Black soldier flies (Hermitia illucen) maggot from municipal organic solid waste (MOSW) as a sustainable feed alternative for aquaculture |
Area of research : | Life Sciences & Biotechnology |
Focus area : | Sustainable Aquaculture Feed Production |
Principal Investigator : | Dr. Vadivelu Damodharan, Annamalai University, Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu |
Timeline Start Year : | 2023 |
Timeline End Year : | 2026 |
Contact info : | damucivil75@gmail.com |
Details
Executive Summary : | The main goal of solid waste management is to design a framework that ensures effective collection, handling of waste, and disposal without causing many environmental impacts. Municipal solid waste generation depends on the people, country, socio-economic activities, cultural and religious activities, and climatic conditions. The source of organic solid waste can be residential, commercial, educational institutions, agricultural activities, fish market and, slaughter house etc. The disposal and recycling of the organic waste is one of the herculean tasks for the public administration /local bodies Panchayat Raj institutions and also the private sector. In the present proposal it is aimed to recycle the municipal organic waste and add value to the organic residues being produced daily. The maggot production from the Black Soldier Fly (BSF) is the promising alternate technology through which the recycling and value addition would be done. Different types of organic wastes with different combinations would also be used as substrate to produce maggot. Here, by using municipal organic waste, maggot larvae, maggot meal, maggot oil and fertilizer would be produced and their efficacy would also be tested. The derivatives like maggot larvae would be fed to fishes, crabs and shrimps as wet feed to study the growth performance both in tank and also in ponds. The maggot oil would be fed to shrimp, crab and carnivore fishes along with commercial feeds as feed additive to study the efficacy and the technology would be up scaled to the field as a post project strategy. The present study will bring out the complete information about growth performance of fish and shell fishes and organic composting of Municipal solid waste management through black soldier fly maggots. This method will also improve the management of the solid waste material, reduce the dangerous environmental pollution and spread of diseases due insects and smokes from incineration. This project will be executed with an amount of Rs.29,21,800/- for the three-year period. |
Co-PI: | Dr. Ayyaru Gopalakrishnan, Annamalai University, Parangipettai, Tamil Nadu-608502 |
Total Budget (INR): | 28,44,070 |
Organizations involved