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With more than 20,000...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003ePeople often see six-legged insects as pests, exotic and something they would never put on their plates...but the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation says some insects are rich in protein and vitamins. \u003cbr/\u003eWith more than 20,000 registered insect farms, Thailand leads to the world's no.1 producer of edible insects. \u003cbr/\u003eThey look disgusting but these six-legged creatures are helping impoverished farmers in Thailand earn additional income.\u003cbr/\u003eFarms in the northeastern Thailand, the country's poorest region, used to rely solely on the rains to either yield a good rice crop, or leave their fields dry and barren. \u003cbr/\u003eToday they make extra bucks out of bugs.\u003cbr/\u003eIn the province of Nakhon Ratchasima, concrete pens full of crickets are a common sight in the backyard of villager's houses.\u003cbr/\u003eCrickets munch on chicken feed, pumpkins and other green leaves as farmers fatten them up for harvesting.\u003cbr/\u003eBoontham Puthachat is one of 30 families in this village raising mounds of the profitable crisp and crunchy critters. \u003cbr/\u003eHe started the business four year ago. While he says he is not rich yet, now he has enough to better take care of his family.\u003cbr/\u003e\"In the past, we earn income only once a year from harvesting rice farm while we can harvest cricket once every two months so it's six times in a year. So it helps us earn more money for the family\" he explains. \u003cbr/\u003eBoontham started his business with a modest capital investment, relatively low-cost input such as cricket feed and little physical labour. \u003cbr/\u003eHe now reaps an annual profit of about $3,000.\u003cbr/\u003eBoontham says  that in the past  people depended on rice farming for their source of income but a rice crop can be harvested once a year while crickets can be harvested once every two months.\u003cbr/\u003eAt a Bangkok market thousands of insects lie in heaps ready for sale, from black beetles, crickets, water bugs, and mountain crickets. \u003cbr/\u003eOonrueng Boontham, the owner of an edible insect stall in a Bangkok's market, says her products are supplied from insect farmers in the other provinces of the country and are delivered in both dried and fresh forms.\u003cbr/\u003eOonrueng says cricket is the best-seller product following by creamy larvae and grasshoppers. Other insects are not so popular. \u003cbr/\u003e\"The best-seller (insects) are crickets, larvae, and grasshopper while others (insects) don't sell well.\"\u003cbr/\u003eShe says edible insects are expensive but her customers are willing to pay high prices. \u003cbr/\u003eOne kilogram of dried cricket is about $13 while the red ant's egg, an ingredient to make the delicacy omelet, costs around $16 per kilogram.\u003cbr/\u003eThe United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says insects were traditionally an integral part of human diets in nearly 100 countries, particular in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, with more than 1,600 species consumed.\u003cbr/\u003eBesides generating extra income, insects have proven nutritious and farming them is easy on the environment, according to a 2013 FAO report. \u003cbr/\u003e\"For many people, it's good, healthy, nutritious food. The amount of protein in insect is equivalent to meat or fish. Insect, depending on species of course, are loaded up with micro-nutritious, vitamins and minerals.\" says Patrick Durst is a senior FAO official who co-authored a study on Thailand's  edible insects industry.\u003cbr/\u003eScientists who have studied the nutritional value of edible insects have found that red ants, small grasshoppers and some water beetles pack (gram-per-gram or ounce-per-ounce) enough protein to rank with lean ground beef while having less fat per gram.\u003cbr/\u003eSix-legged livestock, as the agency calls them, are also easier on the environment than their lesser-legged counterparts. \u003cbr/\u003eIt takes 2,900 gallons of water, 25 pounds of feed and extensive acreage to produce one pound of beef and just one gallon of water, two pounds of feed and a small cubicle to produce a pound of crickets.\u003cbr/\u003eInsects on average can convert 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds) of feed into 1 kilogram (2.2 pounds) of edible meat. In comparison, cattle require 8 kilograms (17.6 pounds) of feed to produce a kilogram of meat. \u003cbr/\u003eMost insects raised for food are likely to produce fewer environmentally harmful greenhouse gases than livestock, the U.N. agency says.\u003cbr/\u003eIn countries as far apart as Laos and Ghana, projects are underway to combat malnutrition with insect farming. \u003cbr/\u003eAnd there is major growth in the breeding of insects for feed at fish and poultry farms and for bio-security through the release of some species to combat pests.\u003cbr/\u003eBoonlue Chaimano, is a regular customer at this restaurant, whose favourite dish is fried water bug. \u003cbr/\u003e\"It's glutinous but soft. And by its nature, it (water bug) is different from other insects by its glutinous (texture) and its good smell\" he says. \u003cbr/\u003e The restaurant serves typical northeastern foods and up to ten insect dishes depending on the season.\u003cbr/\u003eIn Thailand, many people, not just the rural poor, simply enjoy eating some of the 200 different species on offer.\u003cbr/\u003eLarge quantities must be imported from Cambodia, China, Laos and Myanmar and domestically often fetch higher prices than chicken, beef and pork.\u003cbr/\u003eThis is all good news for farmers in this village, who are able to send their children to university thanks to the extra annual income of $5,000, a considerable sum in northeast Thailand, where annual per capital income is estimated at about $2,200.\u003cbr/\u003eThe village cricket farmers have formed a loose cooperative to share information and facilitate marketing. \u003cbr/\u003eAccording to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation, these enterprises have spawned a multimillion-dollar industry with more than 20,000 registered farms, most of them small-scale household operations. \u003cbr/\u003eAveraging an annual output of 7,500 tons in recent years, Thailand leads the world in producing insects for the dining table.\u003cbr/\u003eNakhon Ratchasima, Thailand - 5 August 2014\u003cbr/\u003e1. Various of crickets in a farm in northeastern Thailand\u003cbr/\u003e2. Wide of crickets munching on pumpkins\u003cbr/\u003e3. Set up of Boontham Puthachat walking into crickets pens and patting on feed box\u003cbr/\u003e4. Close up of hand smoothing cricket feed box\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE (Thai) Boontham Puthachat, cricket farmer:\u003cbr/\u003e\"In the past, we earn income only once a year from harvesting rice farm while we can harvest cricket once every two months so it's six times in a year. So it helps us earn more money for the family.\"\u003cbr/\u003eBangkok, Thailand - 15 August 2014\u003cbr/\u003e6. Mid of water beetle on tray in a Bangkok market \u003cbr/\u003e7. Close of a pile of dried crickets \u003cbr/\u003e8. Close of water bugs\u003cbr/\u003e9. Focus shifted from foreground of mountain crickets to pile of medium size crickets in background\u003cbr/\u003e10. Wide of Oonreung  Boontham, insect seller\u003cbr/\u003e11 .Bag full of crickets on scale and hand of seller scooping crickets out of bag\u003cbr/\u003e12. Close of dried crickets\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE(Thai) Oonreung  Boontham, insect seller:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The best-seller (insects) are crickets, larvae, and grasshopper while others (insects) don't sell well.\"\u003cbr/\u003e14. Wide of a Bangkok market with insects on tray\u003cbr/\u003e15. Mid of various of insects on trays\u003cbr/\u003e16. Close of larvae in bag\u003cbr/\u003e17. Pile of ant on ice\u003cbr/\u003eBangkok, Thailand - 19 August 2014\u003cbr/\u003e18. Set up of Patrick Durst,  senior FAO official, who co-authored a study on the Thailand's edible insect industry.\u003cbr/\u003e19. Mid of Patrick reading a report about six-legged livestock edible insect farming, collecting and marketing in Thailand.\u003cbr/\u003e20. Close of hand\u003cbr/\u003e21. SOUNDBITE(Thai)  Patrick Durst, senior FAO official and author of Six-legged livestock: edible insect farming, collecting and marketing in Thailand:\u003cbr/\u003e\"For many people, it's good, healthy, nutritious food. The amount of protein that in insect is equivalent to meat or fish. Insects, depending on species of course, are loaded with micro-nutritious, vitamins and minerals.\"\u003cbr/\u003eBangkok, Thailand - 13 August 2014\u003cbr/\u003e22. Pan to Crok Mai Thai Lao restaurant in Bangkok\u003cbr/\u003e23. Wide of kitchen\u003cbr/\u003e24. Mid of chef's hand arranging water bugs in plate\u003cbr/\u003e25. Close of water bugs in plate\u003cbr/\u003e26. Mid of grasshoppers being washed\u003cbr/\u003e27. Kitchen staff putting grasshoppers on plate\u003cbr/\u003e28. Mid of chef putting down crickets in to fried-pan\u003cbr/\u003e29. Close of boiling oil and insect being fried\u003cbr/\u003e30. Mid of chef's hand shaking off oil from deep fried crickets\u003cbr/\u003e31. Close of fried cricket on plate\u003cbr/\u003e32. Mid of waitress delivering food\u003cbr/\u003e33. Wide of people eating\u003cbr/\u003e34. Mid of spoon scooping fried insect\u003cbr/\u003e35. Set up of Boonlue Chaimano dining \u003cbr/\u003e36. Close of deep fried crickets in plate and being eaten\u003cbr/\u003e37. SOUNDBITE (Thai) Boonlue Chaimano, diner\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's glutinous but soft. And by its nature, it (water bug) is different from other insects by its glutinous (texture) and its good smell.\"\u003cbr/\u003eNakhon Ratchasima, Thailand -  5 August 2014\u003cbr/\u003e38. Wide of woman cricket farmer getting twigs out of cricket pen\u003cbr/\u003e39. Mid of crickets cling on pen's wall\u003cbr/\u003e40. Mid of young crickets on feed box\u003cbr/\u003e41. 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