MagProtein

MagProtein was founded in 2017 initially to produce fish feed from insects for use in the local aquaculture industry in Nigeria. We soon found out that insects have a wider role to play in our food system due to their ability to recycle low value organic material into high value nutrients. We have spent the last 3 years researching at scale the use of insects as a biotechnology catalyst to remanufacture organic material into scarce nutrients that ensure a much better footprint on our environment than many of the materials widely used today as sources of nutrients. We use Black Soldier Fly (BSF), primarily because they are a non-pest fly, can grow rapidly under the right conditions and are highly nutritious. Insects form a large part of the natural diet for birds, fish and other wild life, and can reduce or replace the use of fishmeal, soybean meal and synthetic fertilizer in the food value chain. We have grown from a small pilot facility with a colony that introduced around 300 freshly emerged BSF daily to a much larger more efficient facility that now introduces 500 BSF every minute into a state of the art colony.