The world's largest commercial fly farm, which will harvest the larvae of 8.5-billion flies to produce chicken and fish feed, is under construction in South Africa, news agency Bloomberg reported on Thursday.
Cape Town- and Gibraltar-based company Agriprotein has raised US$11-million from investors to build its first two commercial farms - the first in a planned rollout of 40 such farms - based on an innovative waste-to-protein concept that could revolutionize the global animal feed market.
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