Iceland imports six hundred kilos of insects
The main insect buyers are farmers, producing cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes, flowers and leafy vegetables in greenhouses around Iceland, Viðskiptablaðið reports.
“Their role is to kill other insects. They cannot reproduce in Iceland because they are only kept inside greenhouses,” Ellert Þorgeirsson, director of sales at gardening centre Garðheimar stated.
The insects are used instead of pesticides and make Icelandic greenhouse products chemical free.
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