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ABOUT US

Biobuu Limited is an East African insect company. It was registered in Tanzania
after three years of research on the breeding and feeding behaviors of black
soldier flies. The company has focused on a factory model that produces high
protein chicken and fish feed as well as organic compost. Our model is labor
intensive and perfect for Africa. After developing our first factories in
Tanzania and Kenya we are now looking to open factories all across the
continent.

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Our Insects

The Hermetia illucens or Black soldier fly (BSF) is an insect native to Africa
that as a larvae can consume as much as 70% of its own body weight in waste
every day. For every kilogram of organic waste it consumes, 50 grams of protein
are produced. We use the larvae of this fly to recycle nutrients in food waste
and become the protein content for chicken or fish feed.

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THE PROBLEM

The global population is growing at unprecedented rates and is estimated to
reach 9.1 billion by 2050. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has
stated that in order to sustain such a  population, world food production will
need to rise by 70%. 

Producing meat takes a lot of input. For instance, in order to produce 1
kilogram of meat it takes anywhere between 2 – 7 kilograms of feed depending on
the livestock. To grow this feed large swathes of forests are being cleared
putting species at risk. In 2010, agricultural production accounted for 70% of
the global freshwater consumption with more than half of all this agricultural
production going to feed livestock. Studies have shown that at the current rate
of consumption, there will not be enough available fresh water to irrigate
croplands to feed estimated populations in 2050. 

Of the feeds currently fed to chickens, pigs and farmed fish, they all require
high levels of protein. At the moment that protein comes from Soy or Fish Meal.
The inputs to produce both of these consume natural resources and are being
consumed at an unsustainable rate.

Soy farming next to the Amazon Rainforest


SOY

For soy researchers estimate that millions of hectares of rain-forest has been
cleared causing widespread deforestation, species extinction and pollution.
According to the WWF, soy is the second largest agricultural driver of
deforestation worldwide, behind beef. There was 113 million hectares used to
grow the soy produced in 2013/2014, which is an area the size of the UK, France
and Germany combined. Around 75% of all that soy was used as animal feed


FISHMEAL

Poultry and aquaculture use fish meal as feed due to its high protein content.
In 2012, around 85% of global fish stocks were over-exploited, depleted, fully
exploited or in recovery from exploitation. One way around this would be to stop
depleting the natural supply of fish and start to farm fish commercially as we
do with other livestock. However, the current feed for farmed fish is made up
almost entirely of other fish. Some fish require as much as 1-8 kilograms of
wild fish to create 1 kilogram of farmed fish.




WASTE

In Africa, waste is a real challenge for rapidly urbanizing cities. The proper
disposal of waste and necessary infrastructure is a heavy cost for cities and
residents that they often cannot afford. For this reason African cities find
themselves ranked as some of the dirtiest cities in the world with large amounts
of waste not being disposed of properly. What is more, the vast amount of waste
in African cities is organic waste, over 50% in many places. When organic waste
goes to a landfill it releases serious amounts of methane, a very harmful
greenhouse gas. According to the UN, rotting food waste accounts for 7% of the
global greenhouse gas emissions.

We have a solution that can deal with these problems in a more sustainable and
cost-effective way. And it all comes down to a fly.


OUR PRODUCTS

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Kuku Bonge Insect Derived Protein is whole dried larvae with 48.9% protein and
26% fat content. It can be used as a replacement soymeal or fishmeal in the
diets of chickens or farmed fish



The Kuku Bonge home bin is for households that are looking for an innovative way
to reduce their food waste while at the same time producing live larvae for
their chickens or fish.



The Biobuu Organic Fertilizer is a made with organic waste processed by our
insects. It contains very high amounts of nitrogen as well as potassium and
phosphorous and is great for your farm and your garden.



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PRESS

Biobuu Tanzania Featured on BBC’s Smart Money!
May 31st 2021



Biobuu Tanzania featured in 60 second Docs
January 12th 2020




BioBuu: “Our game plan is to set up insect processing plants all across Africa”
August 20th 2019
BioBuu is to build its second insect processing facility in Africa. The site in
Mombasa, Kenya, will produce up to two metric tons of dried larvae every day,
supplying chicken and fish farmers with an alternative protein source.

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Insect protein plant to be built in Kilifi
July 19th, 2019
An innovative project to introduce insect protein for animal feed into the East
African market is under way in Kilifi county. The plant will produce insect
protein as well as fertilizer by converting organic waste using the larvae of
the black soldier fly.[...]

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Making money from maggots in Tanzania
March 3rd, 2019
The black soldier fly effectively converts organic waste in proteins. These
proteins are an excellent source for animal feed. The Tanzanian entrepreneur
Matthew Haden realized this and has established a successful profitable company
based on this concept[...]

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Poultry Production Cost Cut As Insects Are Used As Feed
By The Citizen - July 16th 2019
BioBuu Limited, an insect company based in Tanzania, has been using larvae of
black soldier flies (BSF) for recycling nutrients in food waste to get proteins
for feeding chickens and fish[...]

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