In Cambodia, rat meat prices rise in line with inflation (37 proc.), as a result of which the poorest cannot afford anything better – local officials admitted on Wednesday. One kilogram of rat meat costs approx 5 thousand. real (1,28 USD) compared to last year, when only paid 1200 real. For comparison: kilogram of beef has reached the price 20 thousand. real. The authorities say, that rat meat is easy to get. After the flood in the Mekong Delta, the rats go ashore to save themselves from drowning. The villagers catch them, and even children, having fun with both “hunting” for them and for small money, which they earn thanks to this. A representative of the Cambodian Ministry of Agriculture, Ly Marong, said, that not only in this country there is a demand for rat meat. Poor Vietnamese also eat them. Is estimated, that Cambodia supplies Vietnam with about a ton of live rats a day. Rat meat has long been popular also among the poor people of Thailand.
In turn, in India, the government of one of the states in the east of the country encourages the population to eat the meat of these rodents in order to fight high prices and to protect grain resources..
Inflation is rising, rat meat included
