At present, Maggot has a huge business opportunity, considering that the livestock and fisheries business that requires Maggot is also increasing. This is because Maggot is touted as an excellent feed for livestock and fisheries businesses. Because, Maggot is a feed that contains high protein. This protein component has a very important role for the process of forming body tissues and helping the vital metabolic process of the body of livestock/fish, such as enzymes, hormones and antibodies.

The best maggot to be cultivated as feed is from the BSF type. This BSF is a flies (diptera) originating from the Stratiomyidae and originates from subtropical and tropical areas. This Maggot life cycle consists of 5 phases, namely eggs, larvae, prepupa, pupae and adults. This life cycle is between 38-41 days. During that time, one adult female flies could produce eggs up to 500 eggs. With the length of the eggs hatching is 4-5 days.

Maggot feed is very easy, because it only needs to provide feed from household organic waste (vegetable waste, fruits, livestock waste, and food processing waste.

Therefore, this Maggot can be a solution in processing organic waste, so as not to accumulate and increase levels of ammonia in the final disposal site.

Based on this promising potential as additional income from villagers, we from the Industrial Engineering Study Program of Telkom University consisting of Dr. Dida Diah Damayanti, Ir.Meng.Sc, Haris Rachmat, ST., MT, Yunita Nugrahaini, ST, MT, Raka Aditya Prayoga and Nabil Sakhya Firdaus carried out community service (Pengmas) in the form of a startup of Maggot flies as a decomposition of organic waste. This pioneering was made in the area of ​​Margalaksana Village, Salawu District, Tasikmalaya Regency, West Java. Salawu was chosen because in this district many residents raised fish, laying hens, or broilers. So that this Maggot can be used as an alternative feed given the feed from the expensive factory. In this 1 year 2022 period, the team focused on providing facilities in the form of saung and cage for hatching and breeding Soldier Fly Fly Fly (BSF). This program is quite enthusiastic from the surrounding community, because food in the form of organic waste in many places around their residence and is obtained free of charge.

It is expected that in the period 2 of the 2022 program, this business pioneering can be continued at the BSF fly cultivation stage starting from the hatching of eggs, the enlargement process, to the harvest of the cultivation.