ENGINEERING FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT Jelgava, 20.-22.05.2020. 1175 INVESTIGATION OF EFFICIENCY OF ADAPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND TECHNICAL MEANS FOR GROWING ENTOMOCULTURES Valentyna Krutyakova 1 , Nonna Pishchanska 1 , Volodymyr Bulgakov 2 , Aleksandrs Adamovics 3 1 Engineering and Technology Institute “Biotechnica”, Ukraine; 2 National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine; 3 Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies, Latvia aleksandrs.adamovics@llu.lv Abstract. Entomocultures is a perspective trend, and they find increasing application in the modern agricultural production. The growing and mass production technologies of entomocultures involve the use of technologies and a complex of equipment adapted to certain natural and climatic conditions providing increased efficiency of the technological processes for the production of entomological products. The technical requirements for the production lines of specific means of biological protection are characterised by significant variability, which determines the purposefulness of the designed approach in order to create technological lines for growing entomocultures. In order to assess the technology, as a whole, a generalised criterion was used, which characterises the minimum energy consumption or a maximum profit. To analyse the entire technology, taking into account several criteria, the indicators of each operation are summarised and presented both in physical terms and by its cost. The research showed that the entomocultures, grown using adaptive technologies that ensure the implementation of external climatic parameters of the environment used by the insects (temperature, humidity, lighting, the air flow) in the entomological laboratories for their production, are characterised by the quality indicators 1.2-1.3 times more in comparison with the entomocultures, obtained by other methods. The insects no longer need a period of adaptation to the climatic conditions in the places of their use. The maximum approximation of the characteristics of the cultivated insects according to the proposed technologies to the indicators of natural populations has been experimentally confirmed – the deviation is not more than 10 %. The energy efficiency indicators are increasing by 18-20 %, and the environmental safety indicators by 15 %. At the same time, the operating costs are reduced not less than by 27-30 %. Keywords: entomocultures, production, equipment, quality. Introduction Efficient management of the technological process of growing entomocultures can be built only on the basis of a criteria-based comparative assessment of technologies for growing entomocultures, taking into account all the factors involved in the formation of the technological process and the initial indicators. The peculiarity in the process of growing entomocultures is that the microclimate parameters in the laboratory play a very significant role in the technological process, on which essentially depends the efficiency of the implementation of adaptive technologies and the insect quality indicators, which are the main indicators of evaluation, including the technologies themselves [1-3]. The technical requirements for the technologic production lines of specific biological protective means are characterised by significant variability, which determines the purposefulness of the project approach to creation of technological lines for growing entomocultures. The evaluation criteria for adaptive technologies and technical means ensure their optimisation, which is carried out according to one or several indicators simultaneously. One of the indicators acts as the main evaluation criterion (the objective function), and all the rest as limitations. The task of the analysis, according to one criterion, as a rule, arises during the operational management of the process of growing entomocultures and limited resources or the raw materials. The evaluation criteria are the quality indicators, the energy costs, the labour costs, the loss of entomoculture, the environmental indicators, etc. To assess the technologies, as a whole, a generalised criterion was used, characterising the minimum of energy costs or the maximum profit. To analyse the entire technology, taking into account several criteria, the indicators of each operation are summarized and presented both in physical terms and as a price. The efficiency and modern technical level of machines and apparatus of entomological industries, like any other industrial product, is characterised by a group of quality indicators: indicators of purpose, reliability, safety, transportability, ergonomics, economy, as well as technical aesthetics, patent-legal and environmental indicators [4-6]. Application of the assessment criteria to analyse the DOI:10.22616/ERDev.2020.19.TF284