In Kompong Thom Province, Cricket Yield Skyrocketing
After years of poor yields, the cricket farmers of Kompong Thom province have more than tripled their average catch compared with the same time last year due to early rains, an agriculture official said yesterday. Ou Bunsophoan, director of the Kompong Thom provincial agriculture department, said farmers in Stung Sen City, Kampong Svay, Santuk and Stong districts—the four places where cricket farming occurs in Kompong Thom—had reported massive increases due to the early rainfall. In 2011, farmers in the four districts caught an average total of 600 kg daily. This year, the roughly 400 families engaged in cricket farming have been catching as much as 1 or 2 tons a day. …
Phok Dorn, P. 23
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