“The locals bring cow dung and we pay them. The cow dung is used to make briquettes,” Karia says. She says they pay Sh300 for a wheelbarrow-full of cow dung, on delivery. So far, the project ...

It is believed to inhibit harmful bacteria, making it a natural sanitizer for ... Fumigation and Air Purification Burning dry cow dung cakes is believed to purify the air. The smoke produced ...

But there's one unusual item flying off the virtual shelves: Online retailers say cow dung patties are selling like hot cakes. The patties — cow poop mixed with hay and dried in the sun, made mainly ...

He earns about 2,500 rupees ($39) a week. Photograph by SUPRANAV DASH The jobs Dash portrays—making sweets, for example, or cow-dung cakes for fuel—are vanishing, and with them goes a social ...