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ఆస్ట్రేలియా క్రికెటర్ గ్లెన్ మ్యాక్స్వెల్

Published : Oct 31, 2019, 11:46 AM IST

Updated : Oct 31, 2019, 12:16 PM IST

ఆస్ట్రేలియా క్రికెటర్ గ్లెన్ మ్యాక్స్వెల్.. ఆటకు తాత్కాలిక విరామం ప్రకటించాడు. మానసిక సమస్యల వల్లే ఈ నిర్ణయం తీసుకున్నాడని క్రికెట్ ఆస్ట్రేలియా తన ట్విట్టర్ ఖాతాలో పేర్కొంది.

మ్యాక్స్వెల్ గురించి క్రికెట్ ఆస్ట్రేలియా ట్వీట్

"గ్లెన్ మ్యాక్స్వెల్.. ప్రస్తుతం విపరీతమైన మానసిక సమస్యతో బాధపడుతున్నాడు. ఫలితంగా కొద్దిరోజులు క్రికెట్కు దూరంగా ఉండనున్నాడు" -డాక్టర్ మైఖేల్ లాయిడ్, జట్టు సైకాలజిస్ట్

ప్రస్తుతం శ్రీలంకతో టీ20 సిరీస్ ఆడుతున్నాడు మ్యాక్స్వెల్. ఇప్పుడు అతడి స్థానాన్ని షార్ట్తో భర్తీ చేయనుంది. శుక్రవారం ఈ రెండు జట్ల మధ్య చివరి మ్యాచ్ జరగనుంది. ఇప్పటికే 2-0 తేడాతో ఈ సిరీస్ను కంగారూలు కైవసం చేసుకున్నారు.

ఆస్ట్రేలియా క్రికెటర్ గ్లెన్ మ్యాక్స్వెల్

ఇది చదవండి: ఆసీస్దే రెండో టీ20... సిరీస్‌ కైవసం

మ్యాక్స్వెల్ గురించి క్రికెట్ ఆస్ట్రేలియా ట్వీట్

"గ్లెన్ మ్యాక్స్వెల్.. ప్రస్తుతం విపరీతమైన మానసిక సమస్యతో బాధపడుతున్నాడు. ఫలితంగా కొద్దిరోజులు క్రికెట్కు దూరంగా ఉండనున్నాడు" -డాక్టర్ మైఖేల్ లాయిడ్, జట్టు సైకాలజిస్ట్

ఆస్ట్రేలియా క్రికెటర్ గ్లెన్ మ్యాక్స్వెల్

ఇది చదవండి: ఆసీస్దే రెండో టీ20... సిరీస్‌ కైవసం

THAILAND INSECTS
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LENGTH: 5:58
SHOTLIST:
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Ratchaburi - 3 October 2019
1. Close of crickets eating food
2. Pan left of Smile Farm employee ladling out food to crickets
3. Various of crickets eating food
4. Various of employees sorting crickets by size
5. Setup shot of Thatnat Chanthatham, Owner of Smile Farm company, walking down path
6. SOUNDBITE (Thai) Thatnat Chanthatham, Owner of Smile Farm company:
"I heard on the TV news that the UN said insects were an alternative source of protein for the future to feed the world's growing population, so I thought that Thais eat a lot of insects already and can get them as street food. Has anyone put them in a bag? If not, how can we do it? What sort of flavours? Do we make them similar to the taste from street vendors or different?"
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Bangkok - 16 October 2019
7. Close of insect snacks being spilled onto table from HiSo snack bag (PRON: HIGH-SO)
8. Pull focus from bamboo worms to crickets
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Bangkok - 9 October 2019
9. Wide of supermarket, employee putting bags of HiSo brand snacks on shelves
10. Various of different HiSo brand packets
11. Wide of shoppers looking at bags
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Ratchaburi – 3 October 2019
12. SOUNDBITE (Thai) Thatnat Chanthatham, Owner of Smile Farm company:
"I tried black crickets. When they arrived, the team and I picked them up. Even though I am a regular when it comes to eating bugs, I still felt like their eyes were staring at me, so it felt strange. Then, after we ate them, their legs and wings poked out and got stuck in our teeth and gums, and I thought; 'Should we go ahead?' I talked to the team and they said; 'Please shelve this one', so I did."
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Bangkok - 4 October 2019
13. Wide of production facility at Smile Farm factory
14. Various of employees putting bamboo worms in containers
15. Close of hands operating controls
16. Wide of tray of silkworms
17. Various of silkworm packaging process
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Ratchaburi - 3 October 2019
18. SOUNDBITE (Thai) Thatnat Chanthatham, Owner of Smile Farm company:
"When it comes to bugs, there are people who are scared of them, people who eat them and people who don't. But to be where we are today, with people knowing and accepting our HiSo brand, that's what I'd call a success."
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Bangkok – 17 October 2019
19. Wide of vendor's stall in street selling insects
20. Mid of trays on stall, with insects
21. Pan left from scorpions in tray to tarantulas in another tray
22. Close of tray of fried crickets
23. Wide of customers
24. Mid of man trying fried scorpion
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Bangkok - 15 October 2019
25. Setup shot of Katinka de Balogh, UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, walking by camera
26. Cutaway of FAO sign, on building exterior
27. SOUNDBITE (English) Katinka de Balogh, UN Food and Agriculture Organization:
"They have an incredible high content of protein, but also minerals and, for example, also vitamin B12 that normally is found in meat or, for example, cattle, sheep, pigs, but we find them also in insects, as well as quite considerable amounts of iron, for example, and zinc. So, the nutritional value of insects has not been recognised in the past and I think, nowadays, we are finding that there is a huge potential."
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Bangkok – 16 October 2019
28. Close of hands picking up HiSo products
29. VOX POP: QUESTION (Thai): "I want to ask if you want to try it". Man says no and walks past
30. VOX POP: QUESTION (Thai): "Do you dare to eat these snacks? Would you like to try?" "No, thanks."
31. VOX POP: QUESTION (English): "We're trying to do a story about new snacks that they have available in Thailand. They're actually bugs. We're just wondering if people would eat it." "Not me. Thank you. Thank you."
32. VOX POP SOUNDBITE (Thai) QUESTION: "How was it?"
Kittipat Jaihao (Thai): "Normal."
QUESTION: "You've eaten insects before?" "Yes."
Anuwat Suetrong (Thai) "It tastes good."
QUESTION: "Good? Would you buy it?" "If I see them, I'll buy them."
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Ratchaburi – 3 October 2019
33. Wide of Thatnat Chanthatham, Owner of Smile Farm company, entering factory area
34. Various of Thatnat scooping crickets into grinder
35. Various of cricket powder emerging from grinder
36. SOUNDBITE (Thai) Thatnat Chanthatham, Owner of Smile Farm company:
"It's still difficult to export. There needs to be an agreement between governments. All you really get is advice on bugs as a food source. In the end, these insects can't really go between countries yet. That's one of the things stopping us from obtaining our goal. We could reach our goal, but it'll take time."
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Bangkok - 4 October 2019
37. Various of crispy silkworm snack production line
LEADIN:
What's your favourite convenience snack? Salted peanuts? Potato chips? How about crispy crickets? Or BBQ flavour silkworms?
The thought may make some people reach for the sick-bag, but not in Thailand, where one entrepreneur is hoping to make a packet selling bugs-in-a-bag.
STORYLINE:
Feeding time at the farm, but you'd hardly know it. No squealing scramble of livestock, just tiny hops and a little background chirping.
This is the Smile cricket farm, in rural Ratchaburi province, 100 kilometres west of Bangkok.
In this room, alone, more than a million of them are on a 45-day cycle from egg, to adult, to harvest.
These small crickets – here being sorted for size – are one of the best sellers in a range of insect convenience snacks sold under the HiSo brand - Thai slang for "high society".
Rural Thais have long eaten bugs as part of their diet.
The idea to bag them up like potato chips came to Thatnat Chanthatham (PRON: TAT-NAT CHAN-TA-TAM) when he saw a news story on TV.
"I heard on the TV news that the UN said insects were an alternative source of protein for the future to feed the world's growing population, so I thought that Thais eat a lot of insects already and can get them as street food," he recalls.
"Has anyone put them in a bag? If not, how can we do it? What sort of flavours? Do we make them similar to the taste from street vendors or different?"
Today, HiSo snacks proudly proclaim what they are: the bamboo worms look like bamboo worms; the crickets look like crickets. The range also includes crispy silkworms.
They come in original, barbecue and Tom Yam flavour and all are baked, not fried.
They are now sold in the ubiquitous 7/11 shops and in a major supermarket chain.
HiSo has established itself in the snack market, but there was plenty of trial-and-error involved, Thatnat says.
For example, when it came to deciding which bugs to bag, like large, black crickets.
"Even though I am a regular when it comes to eating bugs, I still felt like their eyes were staring at me, so it felt strange. Then, after we ate them, their legs and wings poked out and got stuck in our teeth and gums," he says, laughing.
"I thought; 'Should we go ahead?' I talked to the team and they said; 'Please shelve this one', so I did."
Two tons of insects pass through his Bangkok factory every month to be packaged and sent out to the shops.
Revenue is steady at around $100,000 USD per month, but overheads are high.
While he raises his own crickets, he hasn't yet found a way to produce enough silkworms and bamboo worms to the required standard, so he has to buy them in.
Still, four years after the metamorphosis of HiSo from idea to industry, Thatnat is a satisfied man.
"When it comes to bugs, there are people who are scared of them, people who eat them and people who don't," he says.
"But to be where we are today, with people knowing and accepting our HiSo brand, that's what I'd call a success."
Every night, insect vendors hawk their wares on Bangkok's streets.
HiSo's emergence comes amid growing global interest in insects as a food source.
They don't need a lot of space, don't need a lot of feed and don't leave a large carbon footprint.
And in return, as the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) points out, they offer substantial nutritional benefits for livestock and for humans.
"They have an incredible high content of protein, but also minerals and, for example, also vitamin B12," says the FAO's Katinka de Balogh.
"The nutritional value of insects has not been recognised in the past and I think, nowadays, we are finding that there is a huge potential."
So, HiSo could help change perceptions. Or maybe not.
Even in Thailand, some can't stomach the thought of crunchy crickets or original flavour bamboo worms.
Many kept walking by when offered samples on the street, or flat out refused. Two office workers who tried them said they were fine.
"If I see them, I'll buy them," says Anuwat Suetrong.
Thatnat says his products are popular with Asian tourists, especially the Chinese.
His next goal is to export them. But so far, he's hit a brick wall and blames complicated regulations.
"There needs to be an agreement between governments. All you really get is advice on bugs as a food source," he says.
"In the end, these insects can't really go between countries yet. That's one of the things stopping us from obtaining our goal. We could reach our goal."
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