Cow Based Economy

1. Cow Based Economy

2. Introduction • Traditionally basic fiber of the Indian Economy has been woven around the cow, carrying on farming and transport with bullocks and obtaining nourishing food from cow. • "Why the cow was selected for apotheosis is obvious to me. The cow was, in India, the best companion. Not only did she give milk, but she also made agriculture possible. products coming from a living cow are thus considered pure and purifying for those who use them. - Mahatma Gandhi • In 1940’s it was calculated that through its milk, bullocks, manure, hide and bone, the contribution of the cow to the wealth of India was over Rs. 1,000/- crores annually, an amount which no other industry in India except agriculture could equal. Gandhiji therefore established Go Seva Sangh (association for looking after the cow ) to devote its attention on a countrywide scale to the improvement of the condition of cattle in India. Was Gandhiji wrong then to draw our attention to this most important national industry, and to show us the way to make it yield better results ? • Indian rural life heavily depends on cattle for both happiness and economy, hence our objective of this course is to bring forward the significance cow played in traditional India.

3. All basic necessities of life were woven around pivotal Cow Housing Farming Transport Cow Fuel Fodder Defense Health Food

4. Contribution of Cow to the Universe Cow Milk Cow Curd Cow Ghee Cow Urine Cow Dung Bullocks Health & Nutrition Panchgavya Medicines Fertility of soil Bio Gas Bio Power BioPesticides Draught Power Poverty Alleviation Self Employment Sustainable Agriculture Environment Protection Rural Development

5. Farming/Agriculture - Quantitative • Machinery Vs bullock comparison study. • Money spent in building machines – steel, fuel etc • Fertilizers Vs manure comparison study. • Money spent in setting up fertilizer plants and transportation of these fertilizers etc. • Ecological impact study. • Pesticides Vs cow urine/ cow dung ash. • Money spent in setting up fertilizer plants and transportation of these fertilizers etc. • Ecological impact study. • Food storage methods and their comparison.. • Food stored with cow dung ash Vs modern storage mechanisms. • Getting details about the myth of food shortage and the reason being linked to

6. Tractor Farming Fantasy • 1987 Study – The secular cow economy – Mr. V M Vasu We have nearly 40 crore acres under the crop. To switch this area over to mechanized farming, we shall need 5 million tractors against which we have today only a meagre 31000. To make these tractors we will need 30 mln tons of steel and our annual production of steel is 4.5 mln. tons. And as we have during the last 20 years made 12000 locomotives, 0.6 mln trucks and automobiles, what a long span of time shall we need to make the needed five million tractors? And from where the capital estimated to be Rs. 14000 crores has to be raised. The annual depreciation of Rs. 1400 crores apart from the required spare parts (capital and steel for these) and the astronomical diesel consumption needs to be accounted for to get the complete picture of the Tractor Farming Fantasy.

7. Manure Analysis Reported on a wet basis %Nitrogen = 0.35 %NH4-N = 0.17 %Phos = .07 x 2.3 = .17 %P2O5 %Potassium = .36 x 1.2 = .43% K2O %H2O = 91.1 ------------------------------------------------- 1000 gallons of this manure contains: • 28 lbs total N (TKN) • 14 lbs organic Nitrogen • 14 pounds NH4-N • 13 pounds P2O5 • 34 pounds K20 www.umaine.edu/animalsci/Issues/.../Nutrients%20from%20Manure.ppt

8. Cow dung Manure • A scientist in New Zealand had established on the basis of Indian scriptures that cow horns filled with cow dung and buried on a specific date and taken out on another specific date could fertilize an entire acre without any other input. • manure applications improve soil tilth, aeration and water holding capacity • decrease soil erosion potential and promote beneficial organisms • Source: http://www.indianexpress.com/oldStory/17108/

9. Importance of Cow in Agriculture • While ploughing, the oxen stride with gentle gait, not harming the surface of the earth, unlike tractors. • Even as they plough the land, the oxen defecate and urinate, fertilizing the land. • Cattle Manure : organic manure, green leaf manure, earth-worms, and slurry manure with cattle manure bond with the nature and make the land fertile. They do not create the challenge of chemical waste. • 99% of the insects in nature are beneficial to the system. Insecticides prepared from cow urine or well fermented butter milk do not affect these helpful insects. • Dung from one cow is adequate to fertilize 5 acres of land and its urine can protect 10 acres of crop from insects. • 20-25 kgs of bio-fertilizer can be produced from one kg of cow dung by mixing it with biomass. • The application of Urine resulted in a marked increase of grass growth and this did not effect soil quality. • Source: Aoyagi  Noojiro et- at Gumma Ken Nogyo, Skikenjo Hokokku 1974. • Central Institute of Medical & Aromatic Plants, Lucknow – 226015

10. Case Study-1 • A plot was ploughed seven inches deep by the tractor implement i.e. by the soil inverting plough followed by the cultivator and the harrow. Another similar plot was ploughed to a depth of four to five inches with the bullock plough called ‘Victory’ and supplemented with the local country plough. The above experiments were continued for a period of six years with these implements. It was found that with the tractor implements i.e. with plough, cultivator and disc, the average yield of wheat throughout this period was 10.98 maunds per acre, while with the ‘Victory’ cum country plough the corresponding average yield was 12.65 maunds per acre. In these experiments the manuring and other cultural treatments were the same for all the plots. This experiment clearly brought out that the deep ploughing of the tractor is harmful for wheat cultivation. The tractor cultivation tends to pulverise the soil too much. This encourages its packing after irrigation or a shower of rains. The air moisture relationship is thus disturbed with the result that the crop suffers. Source: The cow in our economy by JC Kumarappa

11. Case Study - 2 • Similar plots were taken. One of the plots was ploughed 9-10 inches deep with tractor soil inversion plough in the first instance and followed by normal cultivation with tractor implements to achieve a suitable seed bed for two crops, (1) Maize in kharif and (2) Wheat in Rabi. The Second plot was ploughed five inches deep with soil inverting plough drawn by bullocks followed by normal cultivation with the local country plough. • A third plot was ploughed up to 4-5 inches deep with the local country plough without inversion throughout the season and the fourth plot was ploughed by tractor discs to depth of about four inches. It was found that the deep ploughing with tractor gave an average yield of 37.44 maunds per acre of wheat while the shallow ploughing with tractor gave an average yield of 37.16 mds. per acre of wheat. The highest yield was 40.23 mds. per acre when only the country plough was used. The use of bullock soil inverting plough followed by local country. plough gave a yield of 39.97 mds. per acre. All the four plots were treated in the same way as regards manures and other things. Thus we note that the deep as well as shallow ploughing with tractor gives comparatively low yields while the highest yield is given by the country plough. • Source: The cow in our economy by JC Kumarappa

12. Fertilizer and Farmers • 1987 - The secular cow economy – Mr. V M Vasu Our 400 mln. acres under agriculture will need (every season) 40 mln. tons of fertilizer. To produce these 40 mln. tons of fertilizers annually, how many billions of rupees will be needed? One fertilizer factory established in 1946 with a capital of Rs. 7 crores is manufacturing about 2,75.000 tons of fertilizers annually. On this basis, capital requirements to meet our 40 mln. tons needs may be estimated. Further, the use of these fertilizer costs Rs. 90 per acre while the food grain produce attained is only 15 mds. meaning an additional expense of Rs. 6.00 per md. of food grain. And by these fertilizers the agriculture is extra-burdened by As. 36,000 min. Can the farmer bear the burden?

13. Transport - Quantitative • Good transport statistics. • Transport by rails • Transport by trucks • Bullocks • The cost impact of using the mechanized transport. • Some analysis on decentralized approach. Where the food is grown and consumed locally or transported to nearby towns and cities only using non-mechanized means like bullocks.

14. Irrigation • Irrigation by huge dams is a folly. Wells are the only answer. But are we to fit pumps to these wells? If use pumps, we would need 100 mln. engines and 20 min. engine rooms. These engine rooms would eat away fully our entire years cement production as also iron sheets and steel in huge tonnage. And we are miserably short of all these commodities. Moreover all these costs would be on farm produce. Now if we propose to use bullock-drawn Kosh (leather water lifters) for water drawing, no extra costs are added. The bullock will plough and irrigate the land, carry loads and give manure. Mechanized farming involving tractors, motors and pumps, fertilizers and trucks for transport would add very heavily to the costs so that the farmer will never be able to sell his products below the present prices and people can \never hope for a relieved and easy life. Source: 1987 - The secular cow economy – Mr. V M Vasu

15. Importance of bullocks in transport • 1987 - The secular cow economy – Mr. V M Vasu Agriculture and industrial production aggregates to more than 1,000 mln. tons. This 1,000 mln. tons of commodities have to be transported from fields to factories and from factories to the consuming centres which are spread over this vast areas, and the major bulk of this transport is carried by the bullock. For transport we have 1.21 min. bullock-carts, 3,58,000 railway wagons and 2,20,000 motor trucks. Obviously, if these 12.1 mln. bullock-carts were to be removed from the operation, our transport and distribution system, and as a result both agriculture and industries and the resultant national life, would be in a chaos, for the reason that the railway carries only 180 mln. tons and trucks only 120 min. tons. whereas the balance 70 per cent, or 700 mln. tons, is carried by the age old bullock-carts

16. Nourishment - Quantitatives • Panchagavya : five cow products viz. milk, curd, ghee, urine and dung. • pure ghee is socialism, while, vegetable ghee is capitalism • Per person milk consumption Vs requirement statistics. • Statistics of milk, and milk products production. • Ghee Vs vegetable oil economics. • Statistics or analysis of oil produced locally through oil-Ghani’s and consumed locally. • Health index of milk and milk product consumption Vs physical well being. • Cow has been treated as auspicious and also a symbol of compassion and piousness. Source: http://dahd.nic.in/ch1/chap1.htm

17. Cow dung pesticide Report on Kamadhenu bio-pesticide (Study done by Dr.T.P. Rajendran, CICR). • There was significant reduction in the pink bollworm incidence in plots treated with Kamdhenu bio-pesticide. • Strong reduction of egg laying of American bollworm moths. Study of plant growth promoting effect of bio-pesticide (work done by Dr.C.S.Nautiyal et al, NBRI, Lucknow) • Study showed significant increase in the shoot length, root length and plant biomass, which is an indication of the excellent plant growth promoting effect of bio-pesticide treatment on the growth of maize.

18. Why our social and economic life is disorganized? • 1987 - The secular cow economy – Mr. V M Vasu Per capita milk consumption in America is 5 lbs. while in Britain it is 2½ lbs. The British Medical Council has prescribed minimum two and a half pounds of milk per man for him to keep physically fit. Provision of two and a half pounds of milk per capital four our people, would need 1250 m.lbs. of milk per day. To obtain this quantity of milk we would need 62.5m. milk cows and an equal number for dry period replacements averaging 20 lbs per cow. However against our need of 125 m. cows we have today 54 m. cows and 49 m. heifers. Most of the 54 m. cows give less than 3 lbs. milk a day and possibly less in the case of about 80% of the cows. Because of this reason along their slaughter is unwarranted; and if they are slaughtered the entire social and economic life of the country would be disorganized and in a mess. If these 40 m. cows are slaughtered, then crores of Rupees worth milk powder and condensed milk shall have to be imported annually for our children, pregnant women and the sick only. Higher prices may be demanded in our such dire need and moreover we shall yearly lose 65 m. tons of cow dung. A life of 15 years for such cows would result in a loss of 972 m. tons of cow dung amounting to loss of fuel to the villager, manure and 12,000 m. lbs. of milk.”

19. Ghee Vs Vegetable Oil • 1987 - The secular cow economy – Mr. V M Vasu Instead of pure ghee, if we were to provide Vanaspati ghee the requirement would be 255 mln. ounces or 6975 tons per day. Today we produce 1000 tons. (Here we do not propose to go into its demerits on human health and consider it only from its economic aspects). Our dehusked groundnut production is 4 min. tons which quantity if fully crushed would give 1 .6 mln. tons of oil. (Of course we do not crush entire production of groundnut). To get this daily production of 1000 tons of vegetable ghee we use 375000 tons of the oil annually. To get daily 6975 tons of vanaspati we would need 2.6 mln. tons of oil annually. For this purpose only 9.7 min. tons of groundnut will have to be harvested and the area under groundnut crop will have to be increased six times. The result would be so much less acreage for food grains. The loss of food grains on account of this six fold acreage under groundnut would be of such a magnitude that the deficit cannot be made up with any large scale means of whatever nature. Then again the transport problem arise. These 9.7 mln. tons of ground have to be transported from fields to oil mills and more than two and a half min. tons of vegetable ghee to be returned to villages.

20. Health • Cow Provides Emotional stability • Panchgavya is said to be a cure for all diseases. • Mid wives in Indian villages had been using cow dung fomentation to pregnant women, small babies and women who had just delivered babies. • Cow urine and dung was always pure, toxin destroyer, germicide, balances bile, mucous and air (kapha, vata, pitta), • Cow milk has amino acids which makes its protein easily digestible and is good for kidney • rich source of Vitamins like B2, B3 and A which help increasing immunity • help in reducing acidity, chances of peptic ulcer, breast and skin cancer, formation of serum cholesterol, check obesity • Control diabetes but has good sugar for diabetic patients • one of the best natural anti-oxidants. • Cow urine contains many minerals especially Copper, gold salts, etc. It compensates for bodily mineral deficiency. • Cow urine is called medhya and hradya, which means it, gives strength to brain and heart. • protects heart and brain from damages caused by mental tension and protects these organs from disorders and diseases. http://www.vishwagou.org/AyurvedicbyJayakrishna.htm A.Subramaniam, MD – CDCMPU. Pachapalayan, Coimbatore

21. Health United States Patent 6410059, Khanuja, et al., June 25, 2002 • Pharmaceutical composition containing cow urine distillate and an antibiotic (Kamdhenu Ark) US Patent No. : 6896907 • Use of bioactive fraction from cow urine distillate (Gomutra) as a bioenhancer of anti-infective anticancer agent and nutrients • A pharmaceutical composition comprising an antibiotic and cow urine distillate in an amount effective to enhance antimicrobial effect of the antibiotic is disclosed. The antibiotic can be an antifungal agent. The antibiotic can be a quinolone or a fluoroquinolone. The antifungal agents are azoles, clotrimazole, mystatin or amphotericin

22. Fuel • Thoughtless use of wood and coal as fuel has result in depletion of jungles,; producing water shortage. • it is unlikely that tractors, petrochemicals and even nuclear power will ever replace the simple bull and cow • Fuel through bio-gas from cow dung • Cow Dung cake burned to provide heat for cooking. And Cow-dung cake ash becomes a very good fertilizer, also used for food storage for long duration. • Indian cattle excrete 700 million tons of manure annually, half of which is used as fertilizer to maintain the soil. The rest is burned to provide heat for cooking. It was estimated that cattle dung provides Indian housewives with the thermal equivalent of "27 million tons of kerosene, 35 million tons of coal, or 68 million tons of wood." • Statistics for non-renewable sources saved by using cow dung as fuel source. • Energy saved in transportation by bullocks. • Generation of bio-gas from cow dung and urine is a very simple cost-effective way of producing energy for lighting as well as cooking http://dahd.nic.in/ch6/chap6.htm

23. Fuel • For 70% population of India in villages, kerosene, gas or electricity is neither available nor within the villager’s means. Gas, electricity, kerosene and coal are costly. • Economic and easily available fuel is cow dung cakes and firewood • For such fuel requirements we would further need 200 m. cows, and if these cows were to give us 5 lbs. of milk, a lb. per capital supply can be assured. • This milk supply would save 5 ounces of food grains per head, annual saving being 18.55 m. tons. Cow-dung cake ash becomes a very good fertilizer. • Essarkay Pharmaceuticals Ltd (EPL), has set up a Rs 100-crore project for mass production of bio-gas from cow dung which would be sufficient to replace the LPG as cooking gas and CNG as auto fuel to a large extent. • According to the UP Biogas Research Station, cow dung from one cow in a year could provide energy worth 225 litres of petrol. Source: • http://dahd.nic.in/ch52/chap5.2.htm • http://www.varnasrama.org/~anilsharma/glovesco.org/Secular%20Cow%20Economy.pdf • http://www.financialexpress.com/news/essarkay-pharma-to-set-up-rs-100crore-biogas-project/77976/0> • http://www.financialexpress.com/news/bottling-biogas-in-goshala/143781/0

24. Electricity from cow dung • Cow dung saves 35 million tonnes of coal, 68 million tonnes of fuel wood. In other words nearly 140 million trees of 20 –25 years old would be required to be felled each year otherwise. • Now bio-gas is being successfully filled in cylinders like C.N.G. and vehicles / train is running with bio-gas as fuel. • 10,000 cows to produce enough manure to power a small computer center for a bank- Study by Hewlett-Packard - Design of Farm Waste-Driven Supply Side Infrastructure for Data Centers • Source: http://www.financialexpress.com/news/cow-poo-may-soon-power-computers/623462/

25. Environmental Protection • Suryaketu: Nerve on cow’s back absorbs harmful radiations and cleanses atmosphere • India (30 crore cattle) can produce bio gas, that can save 6.0 crore ton of firewood every year. This would arrest deforestation to that extent. • Cow dung has antiseptic, anti radioactive and anti thermal properties. When we coat the walls and clean the floors of house with cow dung, it protects the dwellers. • In 1984, gas leak in Bhopal killed more than 20,000 people. Those living in houses with cow dung coated walls were not affected. Atomic power centres in India and Russia even today use cow dung to shield radiation. • When we offer ghee in fire as part of ritualistic sacrifices, it strengthens the ozone layer and shields the earth from harmful radiations from Sun.

26. Benefit and usage of cow dung • By keeping one old cow or bull alive we can protect 6 large trees per annum from felling. • Dung available from one fully grown cow/ bull is around 5.4 tonnes per annum. so dry dung will be around 5.4. x 0.30 = 1620 kg per annum. • This is equivalent to 712 kg of dry wood. • This amount of wood comes from 6 large trees • In Vedic culture there are 16 samskaras. These samskaras are ment to put a person in right state of consciousness or mind. • In performing all the samskaras actually cow dung is required. • 5000 – 6000 cakes can be made from one cow’s dung in a year • Cow dung cakes when burned are very good eco friendly, health friendly and mosquito repellent. • Tooth powder can be made from cow dung

27. Housing • Rigveda describes five types of houses, in detail. namely, those of stone, of bricks, of wood and bamboos, of cow-dung and mud and of tree leaves. • Cow dung is mixed with water and used as a paste to make household flooring. • Cow dung-cum-mud dwellings. more suited to the climate, necessities, circumstances and most important to the finances of the people of our country. • Cement structures :repairs 5 years time while the garmati, dwellings need a fresh wash with the dung and earth carried out by the owner involving no monetary expenses • Analysis regarding how much money have been wasted in producing, transporting and using cement. • Any other quantitative information which can be presented?. Source: 1987 - The secular cow economy – Mr. V M Vasu

28. Cow: provides solution to housing problem • Villagers having lost their independent small trades and professions as a result of mechanization, to escape from the increasing grip of shortages created by rationing, zonal restrictions and controls, rush to cities to earn bread. • Deprived of any human facilities, their children either succumb to many sicknesses or, if they survive they add, to the growing anti-social elements. If this process is not checked in time a large section of such anti-social roughs will form in the society endangering the very existence of the cultured and good and the entire Indian culture and religions would face extinction. • Choice of housing should be in consideration of time, financial reach of the people concerned, the circumstances and climate. • we should adopt the practical and sensible way of providing cow dung-cum-mud dwellings. more suited to the climate, necessities, circumstances and most important to the finances of the people of our country. Cement structures demand repairs in about five years time while the garmati, dwellings need a fresh wash with the dung and earth carried out by the owner involving no monetary expenses. Source: 1987 - The secular cow economy – Mr. V M Vasu

29. Mud-Dung House • 1987 - The secular cow economy – Mr. V M Vasu Housing requirements of the country is 9.3 min. in cities and 56.1 min in the rural area. To provide one room dwellings to the villages only would need 170 min. tons of cement and our annual cement production is only 10 min. tons. We cannot wait for generations to build cement structures. This mud-dung dwellings would require dung of 6.30 mln. cows and with this the entire rural housing requirements can be met and comfortably solved.

30. Fodder • The difficulty experienced in feeding cows is due to the fact that our agriculture is industry-oriented and not food oriented, which means that instead of meeting human needs, the agricultural priorities are made to serve industrial needs. • Example Groundnut oil Vs Til Oil • Man and Cows food interests are interdependent and correlated.

31. Groundnut Oil Vs Til Oil • 1987 - The secular cow economy – Mr. V M Vasu Groundnut is sown in 2.40 crores of acres, yielding 16 lakh tons of oil. To get, this 16 lakh tons of oil til sowing needs only 60 lakh acres. But til oil cannot be converted into vegetable ghee. Therefore, til is neglected by the farmer because the industrial consumer, the vanaspati ghee manufacturer would not buy this, as also the farmer is encouraged by the Government to produce groundnut.In fact til sowing would not only create a surplus of 1 .8 crore acres of land for foodgrains, amounting to 45 lakh tons of excess food, but would benefit soil, it not being deteriorated as in the case of groundnut cultivation. Further, til-oil-cake is the best food for cattle. In India rice eaters are about 16 crores as against 32 crores of wheat eaters. For this wheat eating population 8 crores tons of wheat plus a further stock of 3 crores tons for famine and war contingencies, totaling to 11 crores of tons has to be provided for. To meet this tonnage, 16 crores acres have to be under wheat (our present land under cultivation cover 40 crore acres). There is no alternative but to achieve the target. Huge dams and fertilizer factories have, instead of helping towards this target, actually retarded the progress. Therefore 16cr. acres should be allotted for wheat sowing only. Of these 32 crores wheat-eaters about 6 crore are Jowar eaters, 3 crore Bajri eaters and 5 crore maize eaters. Now jowar, bajri and maize are kharitf crops while wheat is a Rabbi crop. Khariff crops will yield 5 crore tons of food grains alongwith 140 crore tons of kadab (stalks). Immediately on harvesting kharif crops gadab should be sown yielding 100 cr. tons. This gadab is also a good fodder and dried gadab is a good fertiliser. The same land can then be utilised for wheat sowing, yielding 5 crores tons of wheat.

32. DEFENCE • Decentralized approach • Self-sufficient and vibrating villages. • Local produced and local consumed approach. • Case Studies • Germany • Vietnam • China • India

33. Ulhasnagar Goshala Visit Summary • Not fully self sustainable it is funded by outside • Income from milk, cow dung and selling other cow products is not sufficient to bear it’s cost • Cow food was fully procured from out side • No cow used to sent slaughter house after retirement • Not generating medicines from cow products to generate income • Some income was generated by promoting Goshala as tourist place • Calf are used to come near the cow by calling their number at the time of milking the cow • Inaugurated by His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupad

34. Fodder Misconception • Man does not get food from where to feed the cow? • his argument is clearly misleading and false for the fact that men do not eat grass and cows do not eat rice, dal and chapaties. • Our food interests are interdependent and correlated. • The difficulty experienced in feeding cows is due to the fact that our agriculture is industry-oriented and not food oriented • 63 crores cows will need 175 crore tons of grass and sowing jowar and bajri only we get a grass yield in excess of this need. Further by developing graze fallow lands an additional 100-150 crore tons of grass can be made available. If the people’s need of one ounce edible oil is met 6.25 crore tons of oil-cake would be available. Twenty-six Iakh tons of cotton seed is produced, lakhs of tons of jowar is produced and having procured sufficient manure and bullock supply for farming our food grain production would rise threefold. With such huge food production the cattle fodder does not remain a problem at all. Along with this, because of superior quality, world markets would willingly pay higher prices for our food grains. Source: • http://dahd.nic.in/ch52/chap5.2.htm • http://www.varnasrama.org/~anilsharma/glovesco.org/Secular%20Cow%20Economy.pdf

35. Organic Farmer: Suresh Waghdhare • Mr. Suresh have done B.Com and worked as accountant • He left his job in sugar mill and started working on the 20 acres farm( Previously barren land) • He is now doing organic farming since 20 years • He has complete faith in God (Lord Dattatrey ) and using holistic approach of farming • He faced many problems mainly water, high input cost and labor in early days • He had nature of never give up in any kind of situation • Achieved many awards from state as well centre government. • He had wife and one daughter and one son, all are involve in farming related activities • He is doing nursery farming in that he growing the plants of Mango, Chikoo, Jambhul, Aawala, Coconut and many others

36. Biogas From Cow Dung • 70 cows all are local breed • Purpose of cow is to get manure and run biogas plant • He is taking the milk form cow only of his personal use, rest of milk is given to the calves • There are 6 bio gas plants on the farm capacity of each plant is 60 m3 volume of the pit. • All the slurry(outlet from biogas plant) is finally going to the big well, and the water from that well is lifted to sprinkle on the nursery plants • On farm there is setup of biogas engine generator(capacity10 KVA) • A big bio gas storage tank is kept in one room, its capacity is approximately 140m3 • He constructed very beautiful temple of Lord Dattatray on the farm • He also constructed bio gas storage tank of capacity of 28000 m3 • He is using vermi wash as fertilizer and herbicide • A plant of vermi compost is in the farm to take care of organic fertilizer for the nursery and Mango trees.

37. Organic Farming • Intercrop of fodder is done in between mango trees • Also sugar cane and corn is grown together only for the purpose of fodder • A special open room is used for the Agnihotra Yagya • Yagya to please Sun god to provide enough sunsine • Music therapy for plants is also implemented. • On the farm there are 60 workers. • Cow milk used for family use and for the calf only • He constructed very beautiful office in the farm and he had one Car and big Bungalow in his town • He never took any subsidy from the government • He says Anna Hazare did development in his village only because of he got huge funds. Also he got the funds because he emotionally blackmailed government • He said if one do scientifically organic farming then there is no need of pollyhouse(green house) to construct on the farm

38. Cow Economy • Cow dung is used for biogas after that is was used as fertilizer in field and cycle for making for biogas from cow dung is 21 days. • One cow can produce cow dung that can be used as fertilizer for one acre • Labor intensive and shortage of labor • Tractor is also used to save labor cost • Investment required for 20 acres are 1.5 crore/year • Capacity of farm = 500000 Mango plants

39. Experience of Mr. Suresh Waghdhare • Emotional stability • Previously barren land become fertile now • Sustainable and profitable business • His annual turnover is approximate Rs 2 core. • No collaboration with others organizationsYagya to please Sun god to provide enough sunsine • Cow milk used for family use and for the calf only • Organic farming is only profitable if farmer grows organic fertilizer and organic herbicides on his own farm • Labor problem is very serious and managing the labor in intelligent way is key to organic farming success

40. Experience of Mr. Suresh Waghdhare • Crop insurance implemented by government is bogus and never helped the farmers • 90% of girls do framing in villages if these girls get good education then he feared that girls will no more work on farm • He says software industry is slaughter house of city people, because the people working in soft industry are severely diseased by many non curable dieses • There was corruption by government officials in selling vermicompost, he said the government officials literally sell soil instead of vermicompost because they are not aware of technology of vermicompost production

41. Experience of Mr. Suresh Waghdhare • Working on farm is very difficult because every day there is emerging new problem of labor, water, fodder, animal etc. • Government is giving subsidy on different projects on farm but all that subsidy goes to the farmers who are close to politicians • Policy makers in government authority are the people who don’t have any agriculture land, then how they can understand the problem of farmer. • Government is giving great help to BPL people so they are reluctant to do work on farm. Instead they work in hotel, bungalow etc. So he fears that only millionaire and BPL people can survive in coming future and there is no future for middle class. • He is saying the workers and his own family is always healthy and never get any serious decease

42. Benefits of Homa Therapy • HOMA is the technical term from the Vedic science of bio-energy denoting the process of removing the toxic conditions of the atmosphere through the agency of fire. • When Homa is performed, an atmosphere is created that is conducive for growing any crop • An aura energy field is created around plants during Agnihotra • Pranai.e. life energy emanates from Agnihotra which pulsates through us and connects with cosmos • Tremendous amounts of energy are gathered around the pyramid at Agnihotra time • A magnetic type field is created, one which naturalizes negative energies and reinforces positive energies • Thus plants become stronger and disease resistance

43. Benefits of Homa Therapy All Nature comes back to Harmony Improves the immune system of all plants More Profit: • Increased quantity and quality in production • Reduced cost of labor • Saving costs of agrochemicals • The produce is superior in: • taste • size • texture • nutrition • Prolongs the shelf life and makes produce more suitable for export • Increased number of harvests during the year, i.e. productive cycle is shortened

44. Experience of Mr. Suresh Waghdhare • He had capacity to keep 5 lakh plants of mango on the farm. Each plant he sell at the rate of Rs 35 for 1 year plant and Rs 150 for 3 year plant • He said if one do scientifically organic farming then there is no need of pollyhouse(green house) to construct on the farm • He never took any subsidy from the government

45. Mr Mukund Shah Integrated farming practitioner • He had 120 Acre of agriculture land • He had 25000 Sqr Feet cloth shop • He is doing faming as side business • He says integrated farming as 60 % organic and 40 % inorganic • 100 Acre of land for sugarcane farming • 5 Acer of land for Mango • 15 Acre land for cereals • 60 tones per acre of sugarcane production • He said he earlier doing only chemical farming that period his sugarcane production lowered to 40 tons per acre, then he started integrated farming now production is stable at 60 tons per acre • 27 Buffalos of Mura Breed from Harayana, 40 cows and bulls of local breeds

46. Mr Mukund Shah: Integrated farming practitioner • Buffalos are used for getting milk and manure. While bulls and cows for good quality bulls. • Rs 200 medical cost per month • Each buffalos gives 12 to 14 liter of milk, milk sell at Rs 31 per liter • Buffalo cost at Rs 60 to 70 thousand • Good Bull sale at maximum cost of Rs 1 lakh • Dry fodder get for 100 units at Rs 1400 to 2200 • 20 Kg of dry fodder and 7 Kg of oil cake for buffalos each day

47. Benefits of Cow Serving Spiritual • It releases from past sinful reaction • Protection from both moral and spiritual degradation. Humanity • Cow protection brings peace, happiness and perfection in life. • Cow protection is the most important business of human society. • Perfect way to serve the humanity shown by God. Ecological • Allows us to lead a simple & pollution free life.  • Cow Panchgavya & Organic Products offers natural & healthy living. • Helps in maintaining the quality of underground water

48. COW Panch-gavya Products for Natural & Healthy Living PERSONAL CARE • Panchgavya Soap • Hair Sampoo • After Shave • Face Cream • Liquid Soap • Tooth Powder • POOJAN • Dhoop Sticks • Samidha • Hawan Samigri • Pure Ghee • Cow Urine • Poojan Lep • HOME CARE • Phenyl • Mosquito Coil • Utensil Cleaner • Cloth Whitener • Glass Cleaner • Toilet Cleaner • MEDICINE-1 • Ghanvati - Piles • Skin Ointment • Medhor- Obesity • Madhumeh Churan • Nari Priyadarshini • Rasamrita • NUTRITION & HEALTH • Cow Ark • Panchgavya Ghritam • Gomutra Asava • Arjun Herbal Tea • Chavan Parash • MEDICINE-2 • Pain Reliever Oil • Pachanamrita • Balm • Massage Oil • Netra Jyoti • Nasal/ Ear Drop

49. Cow-The Ideal Chemical Plant • Converts abundantly available, renewable resources into valuable products such as milk, urine and dung • Smaller than a car, mobile so that it could search out its own inputs • Capable of maintaining the temperature necessary for its reactions within narrow bounds • Able to automatically heal most system failures • Capable to do all of these with little human supervision Robert Anderson (Conference of Chemical Engineers, New Delhi, 1997)

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