2020年9月19日 · Largely seen as a pest to be eradicated elsewhere, cockroaches are lucrative money-earners for an estimated 100 cockroach farmers across China. Crushed cockroaches going by their scientific name Periplaneta Americana are listed as ingredients in various types of Chinese medicine and some medical cosmetics.

Cockroach farming is a specific type of insect farming that involves the breeding of cockroaches as livestock in controlled facilities. Such farming is a sizable industry in China , where large buildings are home to millions of insects.

2021年11月28日 · At present, there are hundreds of cockroach farms in China, with the total number of cockroaches produced annually exceeding the global human population. The insects produced in these unique...

2013年10月15日 · Farmers are pinning their future on the often-dreaded insect, which when dried goes for as much as $20 a pound — for use in Asian medicine and in cosmetics. Dried cockroaches are ready to be sold...

2018年4月19日 · From birth to death, inhabitants never see the sun. The world’s largest cockroach farm is breeding 6 billion adult cockroaches a year and using artificial intelligence to manage a colony...

Subscribe to our YouTube channel here: https://sc.mp/2kAfuvJ A Chinese pharmaceutical company is breeding six billion cockroaches every year. The roaches, as well as other insects such as...

2013年12月17日 · Cockroach farming is big business in China, since pharmaceutical companies use roaches to make products for use in traditional Chinese medicines

2018年12月11日 · Expanding Chinese cities are generating more food waste than they can accommodate in landfills, and cockroaches could be a way to get rid of hills of food scraps, providing nutritious food for livestock when the bugs eventually die and, some say, cures for stomach illness and beauty treatments.

2013年10月21日 · China has about 100 cockroach farms, and new ones are opening almost as fast as the prolific critters breed. But even among Chinese, the industry was little known until August, when a million...

2018年5月1日 · The SCMP reports that cockroach farms like Li’s are not unfamiliar in China, because Periplaneta americana are used in a number of Chinese medicine and health products.