Restricted Research - Award List, Note/Discussion Page
Fiscal Year: 2023
669 Prairie View A&M University (142557)
Principal Investigator: Lohakare, Jayant
Total Amount of Contract, Award, or Gift (Annual before 2011): $ 599,698
Exceeds $250,000 (Is it flagged?): Yes
Start and End Dates: 5/1/23 - 4/30/26
Restricted Research: YES
Academic Discipline: Agriculture
Department, Center, School, or Institute: Cooperative Agricultural Research Center
Title of Contract, Award, or Gift: Utilization of black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) larvae for sustainable food animal production and organic farming
Name of Granting or Contracting Agency/Entity:
Department of Agriculture
CFDA Link: USDA
10.216
Program Title:
1890 Institution Teaching, Research, and Extension Capacity Building Grants Program
CFDA Linked: 1890 Institution Capacity Building Grants
Note:
1.1.1 The specific research objectives are to use BSF larvae (BSFL) to degrade the waste generated from animal and food industry; to convert voluminous poultry litter and excreta into value-added product like fertilizer; promote BSFL as a greener, high value feed protein alternative to human edible soybean, and use frass from BSFL grown on different substrates/waste as an organic fertilizer in slip production. General approaches are to rear BSFL in various organic wastes, utilize the larvae as an alternative source of protein in poultry feed and use the byproduct (frass) as an organic fertilizer in sweetpotato slip production.
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