Unusual information about buying cicada carcasses in Gia Lai, the price is up to 2 million VND/kg

Prices increase and decrease abnormally

Recently, many people in Gia Lai have gone to different places to hunt for cicada carcasses to sell and many social networking sites have continuously posted information about buying cicada carcasses, with prices ranging from 700,000 to more than 2 million VND/month. kg.

As noted by PV Youthcurrently many Facebook account owners have posted pictures, information and the need to buy cicada carcasses such as: “Buying large quantities of cicada carcasses in Gia Lai, Dak Nong, Dak Lak provinces. Vehicles come to see in person. Please pay the price”, “buy unlimited quantities of cicada carcasses”, “need a quintal of cicada carcasses, 2 million large carcasses, 1.2 million small carcasses”…

Traders are even willing to deposit money in advance for people to go into the forest to collect or ask for help in purchasing cicada carcasses in localities. Faced with this “fever”, many people in the districts of Ia Grai, Duc Co, Mang Yang in Gia Lai have quit their jobs to go to rubber and cashew gardens, and go to the forest to find cicada corpses to sell to traders. .

Ms. NTTh, a person who buys cicada carcasses in Ayun commune (H.Mang Yang), said: “I have been collecting cicada carcasses for nearly two months now at a price of 1 million VND/kg for small goods and more than 2 million VND/kg. kg for large, beautiful goods. I sold these cicada corpses to some traders to make a profit. I heard they moved them to the northern border, but for what purpose, I don’t know. This is the first time I found this strange.”

Mr. TTH, a resident of H.Ia Grai, said: “Many months ago, traders in H.Duc Co came to ask me and many others to find cicada carcasses to sell to them. The price of cicada carcasses purchased depends on size, ranging from 800,000 VND to more than 1 million VND/kg. For large tick carcasses in the deep forest, they will buy about 2 million VND/kg.”

Because many people are searching for them, cicada corpses are becoming increasingly scarce, but the purchasing price shows signs of gradually decreasing. “Just last week, the price of cicada carcasses fluctuated around 1 million VND/kg, but these days the price has dropped to about 600,000 VND/kg. I don’t know the purpose of traders buying cicada carcasses and then selling them to places. Come on, what’s the point? I just heard it was used to make medicine. At peak times, I bought about 15 kg of cicada carcasses from people every day,” said Mr. T., a cicada carcass collector in H. Duc. Muscle, say.

Authorities are verifying

According to Mr. Nguyen Quoc Tu, Head of Department of Agriculture and Rural Development H. Duc Co, the authorities are verifying information about traders paying high prices to buy cicada carcasses. The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of H.Duc Co will coordinate with local authorities to propagate to people to carefully learn about purchasing, avoid speculation, collecting cicada carcasses to sell at high prices, leading to disastrous consequences. unpredictable.

“I just saw websites advertising the collection of cicada carcasses and people asking to collect cicada carcasses. I inquired but no one dared to accept buying cicada carcasses. Through research, there was no chance of cicada carcasses. any agency or unit that claims to make medicine. The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of H. Duc Co is directing the facility to obtain information about traders who aggressively buy cicada carcasses,” Mr. Tu said.

And Mr. Phan Dinh Tham, Head of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of H.Ia Grai, said: “In recent days, I have also seen many associations, groups, and social networking sites posting information about purchasing cicada carcasses at high prices. People While picking cashews, we went to the forest and saw cicada corpses so we took them back and sold them to traders.

Currently, many Gia Lai authorities have not been able to verify the purpose of purchasing cicada carcasses at high prices.