IPB opens first cricket workshop

IPB opens first cricket workshop

BOGOR: To support the development of natural resources in the
country, the Bogor Agricultural Institute will hold the country's
first research workshop on crickets.

"We are supporting the development of crickets as a commodity
by working together with more than 50,000 cricket breeders
through their association," said the director of the IPB's Human
Resources Center, Illah Sailah, on Tuesday.

The IPB signed a memorandum of understanding with the
breeders' association last week.

Illah said the IPB would help the farmers with the development
of human resources and technology, while the association would
help enlarge the market for the insects.

He said that crickets, which are common in Indonesia, had long
been used as ingredients in the pharmaceutical and cosmetics
industries, as well as in traditional medicine. --Antara