Insect breeding plants e aquaculture

Imagen equipment by default
Kind of infrastructure
Platforms/Labs
Typology
Animal housing
University
Torino (UNITO)
Application / Industrial sector
Agrifood
Circular & Bioeconomy
Description of equipment

APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES 
 
Aquaculture plant 
- The facility offers a wide range of possibilities for breeding tests and nutrition involving different types of innovative raw materials 
- Breeding and feeding tests 
- Tests of digestibility of raw materials or feed 
- Food preparation 
- Advice on feed formulations 
- Training on food preparation methods and surveys in use 
- Chemical evaluations (feed, fish) and product quality 
 
Insect breeding plant 
- The structure offers the possibility of evaluating organic substrates for breeding larval as well as various environmental parameters for reproduction or breeding 
- Breeding tests on organic substrates 
- Survey of the parameters of growth and reduction of substrates 
- Chemical evaluations of products (substrates, larvae, pupae, breeding residues) 
- Training and advice on breeding

Location
Department
Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences
Features
Equipment list
LAB-0178 Aquaculture plant
- Breeding tanks connected to well water having characteristics constant throughout the year
- The plant consists of tanks for breeding tests (12 rectangular tanks of 3 m3, 21 rectangular tanks of 0.1 m3, 24 square tanks of 0.4 m3, 6 round tanks of 3 m3) and 12 cylindrical conical tanks for determination of the digestibility of raw materials and feed

LAB-0179 Insect Breeding Plant
- Plant dedicated to Moscow soldier (Hermetia illucens) and Flour moth for the production of flours for zootechnical use (FEED)
- The system includes: a room with aviaries for reproduction (temperature, controlled photoperiod and brightness), a climatic cell (2x1x2.5 m; controlled temperature and humidity) for hatching and first growth larval and a climatic chamber (2.9x6.5x2.9 m) for larval growth up to at the pupal stage (temperature, humidity and ventilation control)
Price list
Rates are defined according to specific requests.
Possibility of on-site measurements
It is possible to access the infrastructure by reservation, accompanied by authorized staff, and / or send samples for analysis (without directly accessing the structure). The technical feasibility of the request is evaluated and the experiments.
Contact
Person name
Laura GASCO
Email
laura.gasco@unito.it