BISHKEK – With one eye on the lucrative Chinese market just across the border, an entrepreneur has launched Kyrgyzstan’s first cricket farm and is producing high-protein insect flour and fried cricket snacks.
Accompanied by loud chirping from his one tonne of crickets at the farm, Adyl Gaparov said his idea was inspired by online articles about breeding crickets.
“Our main business is producing cricket flour with high protein content,” Gaparov said. “Our flour contains no less than 70% of protein and many micro and macro elements.”
Gaparov has about one tonne (2,200 pounds) of live crickets at his farm, but he says serious business such as shipments to China starts with …
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