FARMŸNG Releases Its Final Newsletter: Celebrating 6 Years of Innovation in Insect Farming
As the FARMŸNG project comes to a close at the end of June 2025, the consortium is proud to share its final newsletter, highlighting the milestones of a six-year journey toward building a more sustainable bioeconomy through insect farming.
Funded by the BBI JU under Horizon 2020, FARMŸNG brought together 18 partners from 8 countries to pioneer the industrial-scale production of proteins, lipids, and fertilizers from Tenebrio molitor (mealworms).
Key achievements celebrated in the newsletter include:
🔹 The construction of ŸnFarm, the world’s largest vertical insect farm, now delivering the insect-based fertilizer ŸnFrass.
🔹 Genome sequencing of Tenebrio molitor by CEA, enabling future advances in breeding and productivity.
🔹 Nutrition optimization for industrial insect rearing using agricultural by-products.
🔹 Regulatory and commercial breakthroughs, including the first-ever ANSES approval for an insect-based fertilizer.
🔹 Innovations in quality and safety, with Near Infrared (NIR) and PCR methods for traceability and microbial risk detection.
🔹 A policy brief authored by partner CLIB, outlining the strategic value of insect-based solutions for food, feed, and the chemical industry.
The newsletter is a tribute to the project’s vision: harnessing insect farming as a circular, scalable, and sustainable solution to global challenges such as food security and resource efficiency.
