The world’s largest insect farm — a high-tech facility that sprawls across 35,000 square meters and will produce 15,000 metric tons of protein from fly larvae each year — opened in April in Nesle, France.
Inside the cutting-edge farms, companies rear squirming masses of crickets, mealworms and fly larvae within temperature-controlled plastic vats designed to help them grow quickly.
“It blows my mind not just how the industry is exploding but how the research behind it is growing at the same level,” said Jeff Tomberlin, an entomology professor at Texas A&M University who founded a fly farming start-up called EVO Conversion Systems.
“We really want to be able to drive down carbon emissions in food chains and replace ingredients that put pressure on natural resources, and the way to do that is through scale,” said Maye Walraven, who leads North American operations for Innovafeed.
Aarts insists that factory floor area isn’t the most important metric of business success, but admits he “did take part a little bit in that sad, male behavior” of trumpeting a new size record.
The heir apparent is a 45,000-square-meter facility built this summer by Ynsect and funded by a $224 million investment from venture capitalists including “Iron Man” actor Robert Downey Jr.
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The world’s largest insect farm — a high-tech facility that sprawls across 35,000 square meters and will produce 15,000 metric tons of protein from fly larvae each year — opened in April in Nesle, France.
Inside the cutting-edge farms, companies rear squirming masses of crickets, mealworms and fly larvae within temperature-controlled plastic vats designed to help them grow quickly.
“It blows my mind not just how the industry is exploding but how the research behind it is growing at the same level,” said Jeff Tomberlin, an entomology professor at Texas A&M University who founded a fly farming start-up called EVO Conversion Systems.
“We really want to be able to drive down carbon emissions in food chains and replace ingredients that put pressure on natural resources, and the way to do that is through scale,” said Maye Walraven, who leads North American operations for Innovafeed.
Aarts insists that factory floor area isn’t the most important metric of business success, but admits he “did take part a little bit in that sad, male behavior” of trumpeting a new size record.
The heir apparent is a 45,000-square-meter facility built this summer by Ynsect and funded by a $224 million investment from venture capitalists including “Iron Man” actor Robert Downey Jr.
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