Gecko exports a lucrative business in Nakhon Phanom

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Gecko exports a lucrative business in Nakhon Phanom
By English News



NAKHON PHANOM, July 12 - Exporting geckos is a lucrative business in Thailand's northeastern province of Nakhon Phanom with millions of baht in circulation each month.

In Na Wa district, local people are earning incomes of about 20-30 million baht per month from exporting dried geckos.

A dried gecko costs 30-80 baht, depending on its size.

According to the province’s wildlife checkpoint, more than 100,000 live geckos are exported monthly.

Chavalit Ruengwattana, one of the gecko exporters, said he bought live geckos for export to China.

Business has been good, but it can get better if he exports more, he said, so he has just started raising geckos in his own farm for breeding and selling to the market.

Kritsada Sakornwong, head of the Nakhon Phanom wildlife checkpoint said there are high demand and order volume for geckos from foreign markets.

Last year, five entrepreneurs exported about 150 million baht in live geckos. It is believed that the gecko business will become a major income for farmers in this northeastern province. (MCOT online news)


-- TNA 2013-07-12

[soi41]

Dogs, cats, geckos, massageladies. What is next?

[BuddhistVirus]

Dogs, cats, geckos, massageladies. What is next?

Was thinking the same thing...

[laurentbkk]

Dont tell me Geckos are good for sexual practice? .....

[laurentbkk]

Dogs, cats, geckos, massageladies. What is next?

Was thinking the same thing...

under(bed)cover ladyboys in massage parlor

[Tropicalevo]

Dogs, cats, geckos, massageladies. What is next?

Sadly monitor lizards and pangolins are also on that list.

[lothda]

http://www.massagetoday.com/topics/herbcentral/gecko.php

[Kudel]

So what do people do with dried geckos?Use it in medicine ? Or is this a notthenation article 20 to 30 mil baht on exporting and is this bussiness also verboten for foreigners?

[Dap]

Dont tell me Geckos are good for sexual practice? .....

Well, maybe not only for "practice".

[Baerboxer]

With this sort of income the government should introduce a gecko pledging scheme to encourage farmers to breed them

[waza]

why is the exporting of gecko ok but cats are not?

[davejones]

Dogs, cats, geckos, massageladies. What is next?

pigs, cows, chicken.

[annabel]

why is the exporting of gecko ok but cats are not?

Who here so far has said IT'S OK...............????

[techboy]

why is the exporting of gecko ok but cats are not?

Who here so far has said IT'S OK...............????

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[xen]

Reduce the population of geckos for a quick buck, the mosquito population rises, more money needed for mosquito control and more Dengue and malaria . Brilliant.

[ubonjoe]

That is a tukay (spelling?) not a gecko in photo. AKA <deleted>-you lizard because their mating call sounds just like that.

Been lots of news about selling them before.

Edited July 13, 2013 by ubonjoe

[milys]

Reduce the population of geckos for a quick buck, the mosquito population rises, more money needed for mosquito control and more Dengue and malaria . Brilliant.

I was just going to write this. Reduce the numbers of geckos by the hundreds of thousands and only thinking about how many bahts you can make. In the end it will cost far much more as the geckos and other insect eating lizards eat a lot of the mosquites and other disesae spreading insects. Agree with you 100 %

[thaiguzzi]

Reduce the population of geckos for a quick buck, the mosquito population rises, more money needed for mosquito control and more Dengue and malaria . Brilliant.

+1.

Got hundreds of 'em around my farmhouse, big and small. Apart from the shit, they are very useful creatures. And i don't allow any of the relatives to kidnap them, they stay here.