Operational Group: Implementation of a new, environmentally friendly, natural product to prevent acariosis in farmed snails

Currently, the presence of mites on snail farms, which affect the animals by weakening them and also causing them to become ill and die, is one of the problems we need to solve to achieve more sustainable and profitable farms.

Mite name: Riccardoella limacum. This mite exclusively affects snails. Furthermore, due to the specific conditions of snail farms, with their humidity and high temperatures, their proliferation is greater on farms than in the wild, so it particularly affects farmed snails, reducing farm yields, as the mite weakens the animal upon colonization.

This innovative project aims to provide a solution to this problem and launch a new natural product to prevent or minimize mite disease.

This will be a new product based on natural additives, and thanks to a pilot test, we will be able to ensure its effectiveness against mites that affect farmed snails.