TY  - BOOK
AU  - Xie,Jianjun
AU  - Yakuptiyage,Amararatne
AU  - Lin,C.K wei
AU  - Little,David C.
ED  - The Asian Developmental Bank (ADB), Japan,
TI  - Alternative methods for maggot production
T2  - Thesis
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Bangkok
PB  - Asian Institute of Technology
KW  - Flies
N1  - A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements  for the Degree of Master of Science, School of Environment, Resources, and Development; Thesis (M.Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1995
N2  - Seven experimental trials were conducted to investigate alternative methods( i.e. without  animal manure) for commercial maggot production.These trials included: selection of suitable  ingredients for the preparation of maggot substrate ( trial 1,2&6 ); determination of the optimum  liming rate( trial 3); investigation of the bulk density of the substrate( trial 4); investigation on the  use of fish waste as nursing substrate (trial 5) and investigation on a commercial scale maggot  production on a pilot scale (trial 7 ).  The results showed that the replacement of cassava chips with 8 % banana peel, 0.8 %  mineral premix, 8 % rice bran and 8 % Leucaena leaves did not significantly affect average  maggot production, but rice bran decreased survival rate from 37.6 % to 27.5 % and Leucaena  leaves deterred maggot growth. The addition of 8 % molasses significantly increased maggot  production, but 8 % cafeteria waste highly decreased it. The results also showed that mixing 6  grams minced rice straw per hundred gram substrate raised maggot production by 10.7 times.  With the same ingredients, a disign of using 5 % fish waste for nursing instead of mixing it with  them increased maggot production by 35%. Increment of agricultural lime from 0 to 30 % had an  inverse effect on maggot production. The replacement of fish waste (15 %) in grow-out mixed  substrate with molasses decreased average maggot production from 6.0 g to 1.1 g I 100 g  substrate.  It is concluded that molasses is a suitable ingredient for maggot production and  increasing bulk density by using minced rice straw and nursing young maggots with fish waste  can highly increase maggot production both through promoting mean individual weight and  survival rate
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