Thai farmer capitalises on high demand for grasshoppers

[webfact]

 

A Thai farmer in the northeast Nakhon Phanom province found success breeding Patanga grasshoppers, selling eggs at 10,000 baht per kilogram. These grasshoppers are found throughout Asia. The venture, which began as a side occupation, has seen a surge in demand with orders queueing up. Having tried his hands at rearing various animals, the farmer switched to breeding these grasshoppers and reaping their financial rewards.

 

The farmer, 51 year old Somsit Ritthipa, told Thai media that after graduating from a local agricultural college, he worked at the forestry office in Nakhon Phanom. During his spare time, he raised pigs, chickens, fish, and frogs at the back of his house as supplementary income. One day he came across a video on YouTube about rearing Patanga grasshoppers in Sisaket province, where the eggs were sold at 10,000 baht per kilogram, which piqued his interest. Somsit ordered 1,000 baht worth of eggs to experiment with the new venture.

 

Somsit recalled that he reared these grasshoppers in a simple enclosure and fed them grass and leaves as per the video recommendations. 

 

by Nattapong Westwood

 

Top Photo by Khaosod.

 

Full story: https://thethaiger.com/news/national/thai-farmer-capitalises-on-high-demand-for-grasshoppers

 

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[Crossy]

Mmmmmm, tasty 

 

 

[carlyai]

Yes there's grass hopper structures going up everywhere in our part of God's Country.

See what happen with the first big winds.

Sanerio: structures blown down, millions of  grasshoppers, there go the crops we are now planting.

Have to start drinking again. :)

[Burma Bill]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

5 hours ago, webfact said:

breeding these grasshoppers and reaping their financial rewards.

 

Evidently nutricious and delicious, but not for me!

Pan fried, then served crispy on a stick!

Photo taken in Bangkok.

 

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, carlyai said:

Yes there's grass hopper structures going up everywhere in our part of God's Country.

See what happen with the first big winds.

Sanerio: structures blown down, millions of  grasshoppers, there go the crops we are now planting.

Have to start drinking again. :)

Best not to stop... 

[sammieuk1]

Howzat possible 10k a kilo for cricket eggs????

[PETERTHEEATER]

9 minutes ago, sammieuk1 said:

Howzat possible 10k a kilo for cricket eggs????

Supply and demand.

[xylophone]

20 minutes ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

Supply and demand.

Ah so, Grasshopper................

[rwill]

31 minutes ago, sammieuk1 said:

Howzat possible 10k a kilo for cricket eggs????

A better question is how many cricket eggs are in a kilogram?

 

[rwill]

2 minutes ago, xylophone said:

Ah so, Grasshopper................

showing your age there  and mine.  But it is related to Thailand as he was hung here.

[xylophone]

2 minutes ago, rwill said:

showing your age there  and mine.  But it is related to Thailand as he was hung here.

Didn't realise that that he died here, so just looked it up.........thanks.

[Troy Tempest]

At Thb 10,000 a kilo, He wonders what David Carradine would have been worth?

 

 

 

[Gsxrnz]

Grasshoppers are probably a tastier alternative to cockroaches, which if the WEF gets it's way, we'll all be eating.  They'd probably prefer to feed us soylent green but they've been too successful at ensuring a looming population decline. 

[radiochaser]

On 6/5/2023 at 3:38 AM, Burma Bill said:

Evidently nutricious and delicious, but not for me!

Pan fried, then served crispy on a stick!

Photo taken in Bangkok.

 

I tried 'em.  Didn't like em.  But I believe it was the sauce that they had been dipped in more than the hopper itself.