Seedling Sessions: Agriculture Innovation
Can insects be a sustainable source of protein in food and agriculture?
Agri-EPI Centre's Business Development Manager for Duncan Ross spoke with Thomas Farrugia, Founder and CEO of Beta Bugs about the emerging role of insects as a source of sustainable protein.
Beta Bugs is a cutting edge biotechnology company that produces enhanced insect strains for the growing insect farming industry. The domesticated, optimised strains we produce provide benefits at all levels of the production chain ensuring the industry is both more profitable and sustainable. They accelerate the evolution of the organisms to create traits that ensure greatly superior final products.
However, having only recently been domesticated, insects, unlike other agricultural species, are far from optimised for industry. There are huge improvements to be made in efficiency, quality of produce and ease of farming. Beta Bugs are changing this through the application of state of the art breeding programmes and tried and tested bio-techniques.
Agri-EPI Centre's Business Development Manager for Duncan Ross spoke with Thomas Farrugia, Founder and CEO of Beta Bugs about the emerging role of insects as a source of sustainable protein.
Beta Bugs is a cutting edge biotechnology company that produces enhanced insect strains for the growing insect farming industry. The domesticated, optimised strains we produce provide benefits at all levels of the production chain ensuring the industry is both more profitable and sustainable. They accelerate the evolution of the organisms to create traits that ensure greatly superior final products.
However, having only recently been domesticated, insects, unlike other agricultural species, are far from optimised for industry. There are huge improvements to be made in efficiency, quality of produce and ease of farming. Beta Bugs are changing this through the application of state of the art breeding programmes and tried and tested bio-techniques.