Cheap fish food
Forum: Cheap fish food: Palm oil, lowly maggot poised to boost income, cut pollution
Published on:
03/17/2009
Source :
Agence France Presse via Yahoo News
Hard-pressed farmers in developing countries could be thrown an economic lifeline after a lucky discovery by French scientists involving a useless palm oil by-product and the lowly maggot.
The synergy of two otherwise nuisance agents produced a virtually cost-free feed for farmed fish while reducing a pungent source of pollution -- a potential boon in countries like Indonesia, one of the world's ...