Insects Profitable for Chinese Farmers
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From Reuters
PEKING — Farmers in southern China made $1 million last year by exporting grasshoppers, the New China News Agency said Friday. Grasshoppers are used to feed birds in cages.
The farmers in Guangdong province earned another $5.5 million by selling other fodder insects, flowers, birds and fish to Hong Kong, Macao, Southeast Asia and even Western Europe, the agency said.
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