Battambang Province: Grasshopper is a kind of bird that a large number of people like to cook.
As food, it is now being observed on the streets that it looks very interesting for those who like to eat because the farmers who catch locusts have brought it to fry. To put up for sale.
In recent months, it has been observed that along National Road 5 in Sangke district, Battambang province, umbrellas have been deployed on both sides of the road, which farmers have set up to sell locusts. Both of the trays they already fried were crispy.
Oum Srey Ros Chenda, a 62-year-old farmer living in Sala Trav village, said that every night her family, like other farmers, came to catch the locusts.
Selling just to alleviate daily life, even if there is insomnia or pain due to this locust, it must be patient.
Oum Srey continued that in Kampong Preang commune today, there are a lot of locusts because they
Come down and destroy the rice leaves every day, and their favorite type of rice is weed rice.
Because of this tall rice plant.
As for catching locusts, some say using a mosquito net
Or decorate it like a fishing net to take over the rice plant where the locusts are ripening.
In fact, they have to use their hands to hold it one by one.
Just cooked to sell is 2500 riel per can, in kilos is 40,000 riel per kilo, and every day there are passengers passing by car to buy regularly to eat.
Around the grasshopper market on this street, Mr. Yip Bunchhop, former official of the Battambang Provincial Department of Agriculture
Confirmed that locusts are classified as pests like crickets, because these animals
It eats farmers' crops as food, especially rice, especially frogs, it is a species that kills pests that come to destroy crops.
