Biggest Insect Protein Plant in Southern Hemisphere Raises Seed Funding.

PLANT proteins; INSECT-plant relationships; FISHERY products; ANIMAL products; HERMETIA illucens; COMMERCIAL products

(Bloomberg) -- Inseco, which operates the biggest insect protein plant in the southern hemisphere, said it raised $5.3 million in South Africa's biggest ever startup seed funding round. Inseco operates a 10,000 square meter (108,000 square foot) plant in Cape Town that converts the larvae, known as maggots, of the black soldier fly into 100 tons of insect oil and meal a month. [Extracted from the article]

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