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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...shortage is opportunity for humans, too. In the village of Baan Nawng Yang Tai, 54-year-old Tongdaeng Tewa-sae is looking forward to the day when he won't have to break his back farming rice on his 8 hectares. In front of his clapboard home are eight neatly cut sections of cement sewer pipe. His future is in those tubes: two months ago, Tongdaeng and the 84 families in the village began raising crickets as an enterprise. With minimal investment for sewer pipes, chicken feed and breeding crickets, and help from university entomologists and a self-sufficiency project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Craving the Crawlies | 7/16/2001 | See Source »

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