Maggot Benefits and Potential for Cultivation
With the ease of obtaining maggot, maggot cultivation can be done by anyone. The potential that can be developed is quite tempting because it is cheap and environmentally friendly. Here are some potentials that can be obtained from maggot cultivation that you may not know about.
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Maggot Can Decompose Garbage
Waste is a serious problem that requires special handling because it is not easy to reduce its production. Indonesia is included in the category of the country that produces the 4th (fourth) largest waste in the world. It is estimated that every year the production of waste in Indonesia reaches 68 million tons.
Not only from urban areas, but also from rural areas. The problem of organic waste is one that is still difficult to overcome. The availability of shelters and their processing is still difficult to overcome, especially in densely populated environments. We often hear about floods caused by clogged sewers or sewers.
Problems like this are common in several big cities. In its development, actually several technologies were created to be able to decompose waste, one of which is composting technology with conventional methods.
This method uses several chemicals to create microbes that are responsible for breaking down waste. However, the composting process takes a long time because the ability of these microbes to decompose is not short.
However, who would have thought that maggot cultivation could actually help solve problems around waste. Maggot lives by eating organic waste. Maggot's ability to decompose is fairly fast, because maggot is an insect that is quite greedy in eating its food so it is fast in breaking down organic waste. Compared to other microbes, maggot decomposes waste faster.
After hatching, maggots need organic waste as food to survive. Maggot is not a pest insect, so its breeding to decompose waste is an environmentally friendly activity.
The largest waste production can be said to come from the agricultural and plantation sectors. As an illustration, one maggot has the ability to decompose 25-500 mg in one day, while 15 thousand maggots are able to decompose about 2 kg of waste within 24 hours.
One parent BSF fly is able to produce 400-800 eggs so that in one egg laying the number of maggots that will be obtained is quite large for only one parent. Thus, maggot cultivation which is integrated with the agricultural and plantation sectors is not wrong to be developed and can be profitable for all parties.
Maggot can be used as animal feed
In breeding, feed is something that should not be missed. The quality of livestock can be determined from the provision of good feed. In order for livestock to grow healthily and of good quality, the animal feed provided must also be of good quality.
Various kinds of animal feed that have superior quality are sold in the market. One that is superior as animal feed is the result of maggot cultivation developed by the community.
Maggot is usually given to some livestock such as poultry and fish. BSF fly larvae or maggots are animal feed that has superior value because the content of several nutrients in maggot is good for livestock.
In the body of maggot contained amino acids and protein by 40%. Other substances can also be found in maggot so that this type of animal feed will become more and more popular. On the other hand, the use of maggot as animal feed can be said to have many advantages.
First, maggot is an animal that does not smell fishy and does not carry or transmit disease so that it will not cause pollution to the environment because of its smell. Second, it is easily digested by livestock because of its small size and superior nutritional content, which will make livestock grow healthily and the animal's weight will grow naturally because of the nutrients they consume.
Third, maggot cultivation is easy to do and does not require a large area so it is easy to obtain and the cultivation cost is relatively cheap. Moreover, the harvest time for these fly larvae is quite regular and clear.
Large-scale farms certainly incur large costs for the procurement of quality animal feed. By utilizing maggot as animal feed, the costs incurred can be reduced so that it will increase profits.
Fertilizer from Maggot
Indonesia is one of the countries that utilizes the agricultural sector in the country's development. Many people depend on the agricultural sector for their livelihood. In agriculture, fertilizer plays an important role. To produce good quality plants, fertilizers are needed that are able to support fertility