Hundreds of Chinese farms are rearing cockroaches to cure stomach diseases and treat compost waste, according to a media report. Three billion cockroaches are eating 15 tonnes of kitchen waste each day to solve the long-time environmental problem of mountains of discarded food, according to the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post. According to, entomology professor at Shandong Agricultural University, cockroaches can cure oral and peptic ulcers, skin burns and wounds, and even prevent stomach cancer. The number of cockroach farmers in Shandong alone has tripled to about 400 in the past three years, he said.
"There have been huge developments in cockroach breeding and research in the past few years," he said. In the southwestern city of Xichang in Sichuan province, a two-storey building breeding six billion cockroaches to be used in ulcer-curing drugs. A centralized system keeps…
