INVESTIGATION OF EFFICIENCY OF ADAPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND TECHNICAL MEANS FOR GROWING ENTOMOCULTURES

Entomocultures is a perspective trend, and they find increasing application in the modern agricultural production. The growing and mass production technologies of entomocultures involve the use of technologies and a complex of equipment adapted to certain natural and climatic conditions providing increased efficiency of the technological processes for the production of entomological products. The technical requirements for the production lines of specific means of biological protection are characterised by significant variability, which determines the purposefulness of the designed approach in order to create technological lines for growing entomocultures. In order to assess the technology, as a whole, a generalised criterion was used, which characterises the minimum energy consumption or a maximum profit. To analyse the entire technology, taking into account several criteria, the indicators of each operation are summarised and presented both in physical terms and by its cost. The research showed that the entomocultures, grown using adaptive technologies that ensure the implementation of external climatic parameters of the environment used by the insects (temperature, humidity, lighting, the air flow) in the entomological laboratories for their production, are characterised by the quality indicators 1.2-1.3 times more in comparison with the entomocultures, obtained by other methods. The insects no longer need a period of adaptation to the climatic conditions in the places of their use. The maximum approximation of the characteristics of the cultivated insects according to the proposed technologies to the indicators of natural populations has been experimentally confirmed - the deviation is not more than 10 %. The energy efficiency indicators are increasing by 18-20 %, and the environmental safety indicators by 15 %. At the same time, the operating costs are reduced not less than by 27-30 %.