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FlAgship demonstration of industrial scale production of nutrient Resources from Mealworms to develop a bioeconomY New Generation

Descripción del proyecto

Los insectos como nuevo pienso para animales

Los insectos son ricos en proteínas y sostenibles, y tienen una huella medioambiental relativamente baja en términos de producción y procesamiento. El uso de la proteína de insectos está permitido en la comida para mascotas y los piensos para la acuicultura. El proyecto financiado con fondos europeos FARMYNG desarrollará a escala industrial y automatizada la cría y transformación del insecto «Tenebrio molitor» (gusano de la harina) para la producción de alimentos para animales. Probará una cadena de valor de base biológica para obtener unos preparados a base de piensos que sean sostenibles, seguros y de gran calidad. El proyecto tiene como objetivo producir 1 500 toneladas de proteína y 400 toneladas de aceite al mes, tasas que nunca se habían probado en el mercado de la producción de proteínas de insectos.

Objetivo

The world faces a major challenge with the sharp increase in demand for meat and fish by 2050, to which current modes of production, whether through agriculture, aquaculture or fisheries, cannot be sustained. An innovative solution to this predicted shortage of resources, especially protein, lies in insect production and processing which can provide a serious response, but to date no industrial scale of production of insect-derived products has been reached. The FARMYNG project has this ambition to develop on an industrial and automated scale the breeding and
transformation of insects for the production of animal nutrition, with the strong participation of 20 key actors all along the value chain from the feedstock supply to the final insect transformation.
FARMYNG will demonstrate a large-scale, first-of-its-kind bio-based value chain producing sustainable, safe and premium feed products from an innovative origin: the Tenebrio molitor insect (mealworm). The plant developed for FARMYNG will use the efficiency of mealworm physiology to convert vegetal by-products in mealworm biomass and transform those mealworms into sustainable proteins and lipids for fish feed and pet food end markets. In parallel, manure will be recovered for soil fertilization applications. Insects are indeed very effective at converting organic matter. Fed with no-noble materials, insects multiply quickly, and are a rich and natural source of food for certain livestock and pet animals, and probably ultimately for the Humans directly. Insects also emit less greenhouse gases and ammonia and use less water and land than other animal proteins value chains. FARMYNG project, responding to the increasing worldwide proteins demand, will transfer the technology from a demo plant to the Industrial Flagship Plant able to produce almost 1 500 tons of proteins and 400 tons of oil per month, reaching a productions rate never demonstrated before for insect’s proteins production plant.

Régimen de financiación

IA - Innovation action

Coordinador

YNSECT
Aportación neta de la UEn
€ 15 939 004,00
Dirección
1 RUE PIERRE FONTAINE
91058 Evry
Francia

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Pyme

Organización definida por ella misma como pequeña y mediana empresa (pyme) en el momento de la firma del acuerdo de subvención.

Región
Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Essonne
Tipo de actividad
Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
Enlaces
Coste total
€ 41 944 747,37

Participantes (27)