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One booming business in the city is
swiftlet farming
. Walk down Th Lak Meuang and you'll
soon figure out that the top floors of a shophouse have been purposefully converted into a
nesting site for a flock of birds who produce the edible nests considered a delicacy among
the Chinese. Swiflets' nests were quite rare (and expensive) because they were only har-
vested from precipitous sea caves by trained, daring climbers. But in the 1990s, entrepren-
eurs figured out how to replicate the cave atmosphere in multistorey shophouses and the
business has become a key operation throughout Southeast Asia and here in Trat. Now
many municipalities are dealing with the noise pollution of these moneymakers; have a
listen for yourself.
