While many local people have actively invested their money into growing fruit trees like orange and pomelo, Hung in Vai village, had another idea, breeding insects. "My main job is repairing motorbikes, but it has been very competitive as many new shops opened. When I don’t have clients, I like to learn about different species of insects on the Internet”, Hung said.
"It does not take too much space for an insect farm and only requires little investment, so I decided to try this new business and take advantage of the vacant space behind the house”, he explained. "At first, my family did not like my idea very much when I discussed it with them because they had doubt that cricket is only an insect and whether there is a market for it. But I still determined to invest in the insect.”
Nguyen The Hung from Vai village, Thanh Nong commune, Lac Thuy district is taking care of his crickets.
Hung spent about 40 million VND purchasing crickets from Thanh Tam Company, a breeder in Thuong Tien district, Hanoi and built his farm with 15 cages made of pressed wood in September last year.
"Crickets are very easy to raise; and the work only requires you to be hardworking and loving the insect”, Hung said. "You need to clean the cages every 5-7 days and keep the temperature of the cages at around 25-30oC for the crickets to develop well.”
According to Hung, crickets do not consume much food; they mainly eat water spinach, sweet potato leaves and rice bran for chicken. Crickets grow fast; it only takes 9 days for their eggs to hatch and 35 days from then until they are ready to be sold. However, their development also depends on the weather; they can develop well between the third and tenth month of the lunar calendar.
His
originality and bravery have finally paid off. Neither his family members nor
neighbors have expected his business to be successful and bring him big money.
Each cage yielded about
Hung’s originality and adventure idea are admired by people in the commune. Many have come to him to learn from his experience, including his neighbor in the village, Dang Van Thanh, who now has his own cricket farm./.
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