The prospect of applying (OCT.1.2005)

With the high-speed development of chinese economy and the improved living condition of people, the need of high quality animal protein becomes larger. Under this situation, the production of domestic animals must be developedcorrespondingly. However, the serious shortage of Portein forage influences the development of animal husbandry. So, at present many countries make rasing insect by men fundamental courseof the source of protein fofage. The exploitation of yellow mealworm, is one of the excellent representations. Yellow mealworm can supply human beings with protein directly, and yellow mealworm can also appear as a kind of protein forage.

Since the end of 1960s, Ameirica Germany Hungary, soviet Korea and other countries have made raising maggots with excrement as a successful technology apply for production. It was reported that Chinese raised domestic animals with insects in china in 1950s, and people continued to develop study in this aspect gained some great achievements in 1970s. especially the study on house fly, yellow mealworm and other animals which can propagate very fast. The technology can be applied for the production of factory. Yellow mealworm is rich in protein. Its amino acid content is plentiful and the matching is reasonable. And yellow mealworm is abundant in vitamin, mineral microlement and so on. Insects propagate fast and the number of insects is large. It is a kind of high legenerative resources.

Insects are one of great variety, may be their number is more than the total number of animals on land. And also insects possess features, such asshort life, quick propagation, high protein content, and rich nutrition. The most commendable point is that many insects respecially the insects of corrosiveness, can use waste which man and other livestucks can't use. According to lelevant reports's estimation, at the end of this century, insects will become the third protein origin, second only to microbial fungus and unicellular organism. As a country lacking of protein origin, our country actively explort and use insect protein resources. It has practical significance yellow mealworm of low investment and high production. It possess the “five-saving” feature: saving land, saving water, saving energy, saving space, saving manpower. It hasa bringht applied prospect.