Insect and Sericulture Industry Fostering Plan (3rd: 2021~2025)
Vision
Create future agricultural industry led by demand
Goal
Size of domestic insect and sericulture industry: (2019) 90 billion won → (2025) 140 billion won
Size of domestic insect and sericulture industry job: (2019) 7,000 → (2025) 9,000
Strategies
Conduct research to improve added value, explore demand and expand export
Nurture and digitalize organized production and distribution agencies to build infrastructure
Improve system and mindset to strengthen support base for insect and sericulture industry
(Status) Result of 2020 Insect Industry Research
Workers in the insect industry: 4,193, report of insect industry (production, distribution, processing businesses): 2,873 (As of December 2020) * Production: 2,683, Processing: 570, Distribution: 1,404 (with duplication)
92 insect experience centers and 16 insect ecology parks
(Main contents) Main Priority Agendas
① Expand material and technology research development
Develop alternative protein source derived from insects
Develop products with high awareness of consumers
Develop high value-added material
Research functions of sericulture by-products
Strengthen the role of regional insect resource center
② Explore demand and expand export
Premium pet animal market
Expand export of sericulture by-products
③ Organized production and distribution agency
Build categorization system of feed insects
Build base complex of feed and food insects
Build specialized sericulture complex
Stimulate provincial distribution group of insects
Form insect producers’ cooperative
④ Digitalize production
Build smart breeding facilities
Renovate and repair insect breeding facilities
⑤ Improvement of system and regulation
Export and import regulation revision
Improve quality of sericultural products
Improve inappropriate regulations
Revise Insect Industry Act
⑥ Awareness improvement of insects and sericulture
Competition, introduction of foreign species
Broadcast, on and offline promotion
Promote value of insects
Raise awareness of insects
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Utilization Areas
Target Insects
Educational & Pet Insects
50 species including beetles, stag beetles and cetonia pilifera
Pollenating Insects
Bumblebees, leaf-cutting bees, and honeybees
Natural Enemy Insects
34 species including ladybugs, aphid midges and phytoseiulus persimilis
Regional Event Insects
Butterflies, fireflies, etc.
Food, Feed and Drugs
Mealworms, crickets, ptecticus tenebrifers, melolontha incana, spiders, etc.
Others
Insects for environmental cleanup, specimens (for exhibition), research purposes, products, etc.
2,590 raising, processing and distributing farms (As of Dec 2018, temporary)
83 insect experience centers and 13 insect ecological parks
14,188 species of insects inhabit in Korea (2010, Checklist of Korean Insects)