Chiba Institute of Science (Choshi City, Chiba Prefecture) announced on December 2018, 12, "Global Food Production Increase Project to Save the Global Food Crisis-Study on Insect Culture Technology and Effective Utilization as a Future Protein Source (Korogi's) Under the theme of "Cultivation Development Project)", we signed a joint project agreement with Glass Resourcing Co., Ltd., a resource recycling company in Choshi City.
This project aims to complete the cultivation technology for edible crickets within one year under industry-academia collaboration, and plans to put it to practical use as food for cultured fish and livestock while verifying safety.Glass Resourcing will allocate 1 million yen to the joint project and apply its know-how to the technology for powder processing insects.
If the world's population continues to grow, serious food shortages are expected in the future.Starting with insects, which are rarely used as a protein source, we aim to contribute to solving food problems by developing new alternative foods.
At the signing ceremony, Kenichi Ito, Chairman of Glass Resourcing, said, "We would like to develop a new technology originating from Choshi in collaboration with Chiba Institute of Science and link it to regional revitalization."
