I'm currently sitting in our pilot facility which is 7,000 square feet. That's the whole production facility. The actual area in our facility where we're rearing the soldier flies is about the size of a tennis court. In that area we are able to produce the same amount of protein as about 140 to 160 acres of corn.
Our new facility, which is located just across the street here, will be about three acres in size, or one and a half hectares. We will be able to produce the same amount as about 5,000 hectares of corn. It's a massive amount of production in a very small area. We can do this because we use the principles of vertical farming.
Our larvae are grown in bins that we can stack. The soldier fly has a tremendously rapid growth rate. It grows about 8,000 times its size in 10 days. One of my employees did the calculation and this is the equivalent of a human baby growing up to the size of a blue whale in 10 days. We have a massive production in a very small area. That's why we can do what we claim we can do.