For some people see snakes will feel a horror or fear because snakes are considered as a bouquet animal to harm humans. But in the village of Paperura, Kapetakan, Cirebon, West Java, another story, not least citizens in the village every day work to process snakes sent from snake seekers in various regions.
Tosin (35) for example in his village he is known for the nickname “Bos Kobra”, since a few years ago worked as a meat and snake skin processing. Despite the high risk, the profession that was followed by a good result, until now many surroundings were employed to process snakes.
when the rainy season in a day he was able to process about 2 tons of snakes obtained from citizens. Various sizes and types, ranging from water snakes, Piton to cobra. There is usually purchased for 5,000 to 40,000 per tail. For small size snakes are usually disposed of the abdomen and then dried while the medium and large size snakes taken the skin also the flesh.
The process of snake processing is not easy and long, to remove the seeds, the snake should be soaked in the shelter for about overnight to the snakes died, then the snake is frozen and cleaned after it is sunbed until dry.
the skin and the already drained snake meat then sent to the collecter to be used raw materials such as purse bags and Korean meat. In a month of Tosin, the average sends up to 2 tons of skin and snake meat at a price of about 50 thousand for dry snake meat and 100 thousand for the snake skin size 90 cm.
Tosin actually realizes the effort is at risk of the safety of himself and his workers, at any time the snake patokan threatening them, not only the magnificent exfoliation can damage the ecosystem and impact like the uncontrollable psychiatric pests in paddy fields. But Tosin feels the effort that lives him hopes to be able to get another effort so that the snake processing effort he lives.
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