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Shrimps on Covid discount in Ratchaburi

Farmers sell shrimps directly to consumers, at wholesale prices, in Muang district of Ratchaburi on Friday. (Photo: Saichol Ochkajon)

RATCHABURI: Farmers sold shrimps at wholesale prices in Muang district on Friday as the Samut Sakhon Covid-19 outbreak weighed heavily on their business.

Farmers from Bang Phae district arrived with three tonnes of shrimps in front of Darunaratchaburi School on Katatorn Road on Friday. They sold them at farm prices, excluding middlemen from the sales.

The Covid-19 outbreak started last week in a wholesale shrimp market in Samut Sakhon province.

Shrimp farmers in Bang Phae say its effects have been much wider than a swathe of  infections. They normally supplied shrimps to Samut Sakhon. Consumers were now reluctant to buy from them because they had been in contact with…

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