A carpenter planted 450 trees and gave up his job to live exclusively from it: «I'm 100% self-sufficient.»
55-year-old carpenter Vilson Vogel from São Miguel do Oeste, Brazil abandoned his steady and well-paid work to devote himself exclusively to dragonfruit cultivation. Nine years ago he started cultivation as a supplementary income, but demand grew so much that customers went to his home and left money taking fruit. Today it grows 450 trees that yield 5-6 tons per harvest and is 100% self-sufficient. However, market saturation led to a dramatic fall in prices from 40-50 reals per kilo to just 4-6 reals.





