Maha Sarakham Raising crickets doesn’t work. Change to raising scorpions and centipedes, low cost, difficult to kill, better price. Because there are few people to care for Post to sell online and earn tens of thousands per month.

P’Taew or Mrs. Samrit Pratangphalo, 50 years old, makes a career out of raising centipedes and scorpions for sale at Village No. 8, Ban Sang Kaeo, Chiang Yuen Subdistrict, Maha Sarakham Province. P’Taew said that she used to work in Bangkok, but 3 years ago she returned. Came home to take care of my mother. So I thought I would find something to earn income. Starting with raising crickets Raising them and raising them is not a good price. And the food is very expensive. So I went to find more information. What insects do they get at a good price from a store that sells fried insects? Then I found an elephant scorpion, or as Isaan people call it, a ngao spider, and a centipede, which brought a good price. So I started to change to raising scorpions and centipedes. By using the raised crickets as food instead. Start by trying to raise scorpions. Because the villagers would dig it up and use it as food. Therefore, it was set up as a point of purchase at 450 baht per kilogram.

Later, a pond was made for the scorpions to be raised to their size. As I had more, I started posting them for sale online. People saw them and ordered more and more, selling them for about 20 baht each and sending them to fried insect shops. and send it to Korea. As for the centipedes, the villagers will find them from the rice fields. Then buy according to body size: size 5 inches 10 baht, size 6 inches 20 baht, size 7-8 inches price 30 baht, starting with raising them in bottles. But problems began to arise because it took a long time to feed. So they changed to raising them in ponds. Using the egg panels as a residence to hide So they won’t bite each other. Now there are about 1,000 of them. The average income for centipedes alone is about 30,000 baht per month, for example dried and sent to China. Boiled and frozen, it is sold individually. Or in person Someone will come and order a stuffed animal. Or take them to sell at Chatuchak market to beautify them. Or a fried insect shop would come and ask to buy it.

P’Taew also said that there are still few people raising scorpions and centipedes. The future can still go a long way. Because the cost of raising them is almost non-existent. There is only the cost of cricket food. These animals eat little, die hard, have little disease, have little risk and have a good price. – Thai News Agency

Source: Thai News Agency