Locusts is a New Type of “Renewable” Wellness Food Source.

Issues:

• Desert locusts (Locusta migratoria) attack crops in huge swarms-caligula, which always moves in one direction, destroying indiscriminately any vegetation on the way, such as grass, shrubs, trees, eating their leaves, stems, flowers, fruits and is a real threat to everything world, especially to agriculture and food security in the Middle East and the Gulf countries, Southeast Asia, East and Central Africa.
• Also well known, that any invasion of a migratory locust swarm completely destroys all vegetation in a given area for about a few hours to 2 days, then the locust swarm moves further in search of new food sources.
• In such a short time, none of the existing technologies in the world is not capable of effectively combat a massive locust invasion and save crops if a swarm of locusts has already landed and began destroying vegetation.
• According to experts’ evaluation, the outbreak of the locust swarm in February 2020 was the largest in the last 70 years, which consisted of 500 billion individuals.
• Africa expects the next unprecedented locust invasion and the scale of the disaster could be twenty times worse than 2020.

About STOP Locust:

• “STOP Locust” is a unique patented method for locust control that can be used to effectively protect crops, pastures, trees and other vegetation from locust infestations, as well as for the environmentally friendly production of natural nutritious locust biomass and locust protein products.
• The original technology “STOP Locust” allows to intercept a migratory swarm of locust during the flight, to attract its attention, to force it to land on a selected deserted area located on migration routes of locust swarm, far from fertile and arable lands with crops and vegetation, for example, in the desert.
• The “STOP Locust” technology is used the innovative system for attraction and localization of a migratory locust swarm that enable to ensure the efficient capture, collection, packaging and transportation of locust preventing re-takeoff of a migratory swarm of locust and reaching of locust swarms to agricultural areas to destroy crops and other green vegetation with further processing of caught locust into valued protein meal that allows locusts to be classified as a new type of “renewable” wellness food source.

The Nutritional Properties and Nutritional Value of Locust Protein Meal:

• The nutritional properties and nutritional value of locust protein meals are unmatched. For example, pork and lamb have about 17% protein, fish about 21%, and locust flour about 75%.
• Another example, a cow needs 8 Kg of feed to get 1 Kg of conditional protein, while locusts only need 300 g.
• In absolute terms, the protein production efficiency of locust is more than 25 times higher than that of cattle!

Estimated Size of the Global Locust Protein Products Market:

• According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), a migratory swarm of Desert Locusts can number between 500 million and 500 billion or more individuals.
• For example, a 500 million locust swarm contains about 100 cubic meters of biomass, based on the fact that the average volume of 1 locust individual is 5 cubic cm (the size of males is from 46 to 56 mm, the size of females is from 51-58 to mm.).
• A swarm of 10 billion locust individuals already contains about 2,000 cubic meters of biomass.
• Migrating swarms of Desert Locust can be up to 10 km wide and up to 200 km long.
• For example, in Africa, the migratory swarm of desert locusts (Schistocerca gregaria), containing about 28 billion individuals, weighed more than 70,000 tons (on average, one locust individual weighs about 2 g)!
• For example, in Kampala City, Uganda a tablespoon of locust, boiled or fried and ready to eat, costs 1,000 Ugandan shillings ($0.27), and 1 glass costs up to 5,000 Ugandan shillings ($1.35).
• One bag of fresh locust caught costs up to $80.
• According to various sources, the cost of dried locust biomass is about $10 / Kg.
• The average market price of a food-grade locust protein meal is about ~€40–80/kg.
• Thus, the estimated cost of dried locust biomass, which can be obtained from one locust swarm of about 100 billion individuals and weighing about 2 million tons, will be about $40 billion per year.
• The estimated cost of protein meal, which can be obtained from one locust swarm of 1 trillion individuals and weighing about 20 million tons, will be about $800 billion per year.
• Thus, the total global markets for locust biomass and locust protein products could exceed $1 trillion!

More detailed information please see in a separate presentations called “STOP Locust Slidesgo” and “STOP Locust Description”.