CIEGO DE AVILA, Cuba, Apr 12 (ACN) Salvador Valdes Mesa, Cuban Vice President, learned at La Candelaria farm, in the central province of Ciego de Avila, about the advances in the reproduction for productive purposes of the black soldier fly, an initiative he recommended to generalize in the country for its remarkable benefits as animal feed and biofertilizer.
On that farm, belonging to the Patricio Sierralta Credit and Services Cooperative (CSS), in the municipality of Ciro Redondo, under the leadership of Miguel Angel Iparraguirre Cruz, an agronomist engineer specialized in Plant Health, Master in Agricultural Sciences and Doctor in Biological Sciences, the first fruits of the construction of two modules can already be seen: one for research + development and the other for production.
At the beginning they told us we were crazy to undertake the intensive breeding of this insect,” said farmer Alexande