{"id":1832,"date":"2021-03-17T15:34:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T14:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/?p=1832"},"modified":"2021-03-17T15:39:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T14:39:17","slug":"insect-excrement-as-an-alternative-fertilizer-for-sustainable-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2021\/03\/17\/insect-excrement-as-an-alternative-fertilizer-for-sustainable-agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Insect excrement as an alternative fertilizer for sustainable agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/d1bxh8uas1mnw7.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js'><\/script><figure id=\"attachment_1833\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1833\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1833 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/03\/Hermetiaillucens_Kress-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/03\/Hermetiaillucens_Kress-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/03\/Hermetiaillucens_Kress-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/03\/Hermetiaillucens_Kress-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/03\/Hermetiaillucens_Kress.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1833\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture by Dennis Kress<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The mass breeding of insects for animal protein production could compete efficiently with conventional livestock to feed the ever-growing human population. Insect excrement (frass) is one of the main outputs of this process. In a recent review, scientist <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s13593-020-00656-x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Poveda<\/a> highlighted the benefits of reusing frass as bio-fertilizer in agriculture. Insect frass provides soils with nutrients, beneficial microorganisms and different biomolecules of great interest. Therefore it promotes plant growth and increases crop productivity for a sustainable agriculture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><div class='altmetric-embed altmetric-embed' data-badge-type='donut' data-doi='10.1007\/s13593-020-00656-x'   ><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mass breeding of insects for animal protein production could compete efficiently with conventional livestock to feed the ever-growing human population. Insect excrement (frass) is one of the main outputs of this process. In a recent review, scientist Poveda highlighted the benefits of reusing frass as bio-fertilizer in agriculture. Insect frass provides soils with nutrients, &#8230; <a title=\"Insect excrement as an alternative fertilizer for sustainable agriculture\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2021\/03\/17\/insect-excrement-as-an-alternative-fertilizer-for-sustainable-agriculture\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Insect excrement as an alternative fertilizer for sustainable agriculture\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fertilization","category-waste-use-in-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}