Maggot Agribusiness Development and Utilization of Maggot Waste (Hermetica Illucens)

Abstract

Until now, waste has always been a problem in the community environment, market environment and food stall environment where people are able to produce a lot of waste every day so that when they throw away rubbish they just throw it away without realizing that the waste can be used to make a business or process the waste. To be used as a cultivation business on a home scale is maggot cultivation. Maggot cultivation is now a booming business because it is very easy to cultivate yourself, so many people are interested in cultivating them because the cultivation method is very easy to understand because the basic ingredients for feeding them are also waste, be it kitchen organic waste, vegetable trader waste, and waste. restaurant and rocket chicken. Usually these unused wastes are just thrown away. Therefore, to solve problems related to waste, namely by using waste for maggot cultivation.