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Mon, 05/30/2011 - 07:36
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FAO celebrates the first cricket harvesting
VIENTIANE,MAY.(KPL) -In the framework of the project Sustainable Insect farming and harvesting for better nutrition, improved food security, and household income generation, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) started in January 2011 a pilot activity to introduce small scale cricket farming at the School for Gifted and Ethnic Students, National University of Laos (NUoL), in Vientiane (also called Phonsavanh School).
On Saturday 28th May 2011, at the occasion of the first cricket harvesting, an event entitled “Saep E Li – the Celebration of the first cricket harvesting” gathered between 300 and 400 students from different schools at the School for Gifted and Ethnic Students.
This event was the opportunity for the 45 students involved in the pilot activity to share about their experience on cricket farming. There were also a Lao dancing performance as well as a theatre performance by the students. The event was open to the public.
Several booths allowed the audience to see insect cooking demonstration, to taste for free edible insect recipes created for the event and to learn on insect breeding and on the nutritional benefits of insects. Live insects brought from the Edible Insect Demonstration site, Nabong Campus, Faculty of Agriculture, NUoL were shown to the public so they could see the work currently being done in collaboration with the Faculty of Agriculture.
FAO together with its counterpart the Faculty of Agriculture currently works there on four different species of insects. The house cricket, the mealworm, the palm weevil are bred and the weaver ant is semi-bred in trees outside the unit. Experiments have also been undertaken at the Demonstration site to determine what are the best options to feed the insects, for the nutritional and economical aspects.
In the framework of the pilot project, 45 students aged 16 to 18 years-old have been taught on the techniques of cricket breeding and had the opportunity to actually raise crickets in their school. The activities implemented also allowed the students to learn more about the nutritional aspects of insects in general. Drawings activities were also organized, and the public had the occasion to see the drawings made by the students during the event.
In May 2010, FAO started the project Sustainable Insect farming and harvesting for better nutrition, improved food security, and household income generation aiming at promoting edible insects consumption as a sustainable way to tackle undernourishment and enhance food security. The project focuses on strengthening the existing role of insects as complementary food in the Lao diet, enhancing the sustainability, safety, and efficiency of collection, preparation, post-harvesting processing, and consumption of insects as well as introducing insect farming.
On Saturday 28th May 2011, at the occasion of the first cricket harvesting, an event entitled “Saep E Li – the Celebration of the first cricket harvesting” gathered between 300 and 400 students from different schools at the School for Gifted and Ethnic Students.
This event was the opportunity for the 45 students involved in the pilot activity to share about their experience on cricket farming. There were also a Lao dancing performance as well as a theatre performance by the students. The event was open to the public.
Several booths allowed the audience to see insect cooking demonstration, to taste for free edible insect recipes created for the event and to learn on insect breeding and on the nutritional benefits of insects. Live insects brought from the Edible Insect Demonstration site, Nabong Campus, Faculty of Agriculture, NUoL were shown to the public so they could see the work currently being done in collaboration with the Faculty of Agriculture.
FAO together with its counterpart the Faculty of Agriculture currently works there on four different species of insects. The house cricket, the mealworm, the palm weevil are bred and the weaver ant is semi-bred in trees outside the unit. Experiments have also been undertaken at the Demonstration site to determine what are the best options to feed the insects, for the nutritional and economical aspects.
In the framework of the pilot project, 45 students aged 16 to 18 years-old have been taught on the techniques of cricket breeding and had the opportunity to actually raise crickets in their school. The activities implemented also allowed the students to learn more about the nutritional aspects of insects in general. Drawings activities were also organized, and the public had the occasion to see the drawings made by the students during the event.
In May 2010, FAO started the project Sustainable Insect farming and harvesting for better nutrition, improved food security, and household income generation aiming at promoting edible insects consumption as a sustainable way to tackle undernourishment and enhance food security. The project focuses on strengthening the existing role of insects as complementary food in the Lao diet, enhancing the sustainability, safety, and efficiency of collection, preparation, post-harvesting processing, and consumption of insects as well as introducing insect farming.
