Trang, A 75-year-old grandfather raises golden frogs using a technique of playing music to them, which helps the frogs not get stressed, grow well, and the owner is in a good mood, generating almost 100,000 baht in income per year.Grandfather Rid Lomkhong, 75 years old, lives in Village No. 3, Na Bin La Subdistrict, Mueang District, Trang Province. He has raised and sold golden frogs as his main source of income for over 10 years. Grandfather Rid's technique is to play music for the frogs every day, from morning until evening. He alternates between old and new songs, country songs, and folk songs. Not only do the frogs listen, but the raisers also get to listen, which makes it enjoyable to work and not lonely.Grandpa learned the technique of playing music for frogs from listening to the radio, which said that music was played for fruit trees and the trees blossomed and bore fruit all over the trees. He therefore applied it to his own frog farming about 5 years ago and noticed that the frogs would stay sti ll, calm, and not bite each other like when there was no music. They also ate well, grew quickly, and had a much lower mortality rate. Therefore, he turned to using this technique until today.Raising golden frogs, Grandpa Rid said that in 1 year, he can raise 3 batches, each batch will raise about 2,500 frogs, raising for 120 days, catching and selling them in the size of 2 frogs per 1 kg., selling at a price of 80 baht per kilogram, making an income per batch of raising no less than 30,000 baht, or almost 100,000 baht per year. But the cost of frog feed has increased from the previous 300 baht per bag to more than 700 baht, causing Grandpa to have to find additional income because he doesn't want to raise the price of frogs, feeling sorry for the customers. Grandpa Rid's additional income is trapping and catching gourami or stingrays in the rice fields, raising them for about 2-3 months, selling them to traders at a price of 70 baht per kilogram, which the market demands a lot, not enough to sell.Source : Thai News Agency