The National Bureau of Agricultural Commodity and Food Standards will support commercial cricket farms with knowledge and advice. Edible crickets should become an important export product. Foreign investors are interested in cricket farms that export to the EU, China, the US and Canada.

Thailand now has 20.000 cricket farms, mostly in the Northeast, and produces 700 tons of insects a year worth a billion baht. Some importers in the EU want to place large orders for frozen and processed crickets.

EU countries such as Switzerland are future markets for Thailand's edible cricket exports. Since January 1, the EU has applied new stricter requirements for food safety. Thai cricket farmers, processors and exporters still have to adjust their working methods to meet the new requirements.

Source: Bangkok Post

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