Chinese woman breeds one lakh cockroaches

Beijing: An enterprising Chinese woman has turned her house into a breeding ground for 100,000 cockroaches and sending them to pharmaceutical companies to be used in some Chinese medicines.

Yuan Mexia, a 37-year-old pharmacy employee in Fujian province in eastern China, breeds the cockroaches in her countryside home as they are used in some Chinese medicines.

She packs the cockroaches off to pharmaceutical companies for around $100 a kilo after killing them by drowning them in water, and drying them in the sun.