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Brazil: Cow faeces salesman spices up street market in Rio
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22.10.2016
52 year-old Ricardo Batista Oliveira showed off his wares: cow faeces, at a market in Rio de Janeiro, Friday.
Oliveira sells cow faeces as an organic fertiliser for domestic plants and plantations. It is also serves a purpose in driving away mosquitos, a daily problem in a city like Rio where the temperature is warm throughout the year.
Oliveira, who was raised in a farm and remembers faeces being sold in street markets, said that "nobody has the bravery I have to go to the field in the backwoods with the risk to be bitten by snakes and take beef shit to sell."
Customer, Maria Fernanda, explained why she was buying the animal faeces: "I am studying landscaping and the first project and the only I have at the moment is the garden of my house. I am going to put the shit there because I really like organic fertilization."
Oliveira has been selling cow dung since he was 17-years old and 35 years later, he has no competitors in the area. A one kilo bag of cow dung costs three reais ($80/€0.73).
Oliveira sells cow faeces as an organic fertiliser for domestic plants and plantations. It is also serves a purpose in driving away mosquitos, a daily problem in a city like Rio where the temperature is warm throughout the year.
Oliveira, who was raised in a farm and remembers faeces being sold in street markets, said that "nobody has the bravery I have to go to the field in the backwoods with the risk to be bitten by snakes and take beef shit to sell."
Customer, Maria Fernanda, explained why she was buying the animal faeces: "I am studying landscaping and the first project and the only I have at the moment is the garden of my house. I am going to put the shit there because I really like organic fertilization."
Oliveira has been selling cow dung since he was 17-years old and 35 years later, he has no competitors in the area. A one kilo bag of cow dung costs three reais ($80/€0.73).
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