Dear MEL School’s
Topic Readers,
Cambodian rat
meat: A growing export market
Smart farmers they
are. After harvesting their rice, they catch rice that have been eating roots
and rice. But why don’t those rice farmers try to catch such crop-eating rats
before their rice harvest? It’s because while they are growing rice, they are
also feeding rats to harvest them.
Do they eat the
rats? No. They catch them to sell, but not for the Cambodian’s stomach but for
the Vietnamese’s. So, it’s for export.
Unlike rats in the
town, rats in the rice field are clean as they live in the rice field and eat
only roots and rice. It tastes like chicken. Vietnamese people seem to enjoy
the delicacy and the demand is rising. So the rice farmers in Cambodia become
busy catching and selling them to the traders.
Those farmers say
the meat is clean and tasty but they still don’t eat it. Will you try to taste
it?
Enjoy reading and
learning about this interesting side business of the rice farmers in Cambodia.
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