As a team leader and an executive at Full Circle Biotechnology, he heads a fold of twenty million black soldier fly larvae. The company purchases earthworms and uses them to replace animal protein feed for the country’s shrimp and pig farms, which already exist in a small indoor place near the center of Bangkok.
Insect protein revolution
The larvae of pectiniphora dominate the air as a warm, humid, and dark habitat and consume all types of fruit and vegetable waste from food and beverage processing. Then, these co-products are blended with live probiotic bacteria and mushrooms that can be further processed into Energipower.
In this expression, Mr. Collins reveals that the product is a real and eco-conscious option for animal feed in the market increasingly dominated by soybean products. With this, Coca-Cola is involved in destroying the South American forests. Besides, his facility promotes the process of dry distillers’ grains and animal fat, considering that the unique process of this feed balances out to 10 times the carbon footprint compared to the soymeal.
It has mostly been agreed that insects consumed in their life cycle as larvae have much lower carbon footprints than other dietary insects, with natural food waste being their only food source. The bugs we nourish become less carbon efficient if they aren’t digesting their feed food properly. Moreover, studies point out that several varieties of soybean meal cause lower carbon emissions.
Mr Collins said that the food fed by Full Circle contains 70% protein, and he kept repeating that the soy feed is only 40% protein, so he insinuated that the food from Full Circle is richer in protein and energy. Full Circle has grown in quantity since 2019, and now they have 14 personnel involved in 49 farms in Thailand. They always want to grow beyond this level; however, their nice competitor has a lower price, and that is soybean feed.
AI-driven insect farming
However, AI cushions the feed price and yields more cost-effective production. This ability is implemented by allowing a computer to learn everything about insect farming – including data from past and current events – and use these events in real-time processes, thus defining and expanding farming techniques. The larvae can require additional temperature levels, food amount, floor area space, and speedy and accurate larvae count.
Mr.Collins says AI works substantially faster, drastically reducing the trial-and-error process, an observational step to perfect insect production. On the other hand, all the above-mentioned processes should be evaluated regularly to prevent suffering from achieving the optimum production method.
AI can be a strong toolkit for progressing insect farm-keeping and is enabled by the software that processes notes and understands the conduct of others in insect farming, too. Furthermore, this will open the possibility of extracting more nutrients and offering consumers a large-scale and tasty crop every time insects are generated. Therefore, it has a mere monitoring software that efficiently collects technology data. Nevertheless, the AI upgrade involves a self-instructing approach. Hence, it can drive itself, which will change the construction of insect farms.
Mr Collins mentions that the plan is with AI, a technology that allows finding far beyond the reach of the human head, using many sensor types and processing terabytes of data. Nonetheless, Mr Collins remarks that occasionally, these are the situations in which no one could be blamed, or at least where no action is required from people. Let me give another example. Flies like to have a green surface that will help them defend their mating spot. They try to secure a section of the sky by creating a green ribbon.
