Cow Based Economy

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 1940s 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.

All basic necessities of life were woven

around pivotal Cow
Housin
g
Farming

Fodder

Co
w

Defens
e

Transpo
rt

Fuel

Health
Food

Contribution of Cow to the

Universe

Cow
Milk

Health
&
Nutritio
n

Poverty
Alleviatio
n

Cow
Curd

Panchga
vya

Cow
Ghee

Medicine
s

Self
Employmen
t

Fertility
of soil

Rural
Developme
nt

Cow
Urine

Bio
Gas

Bullock
s

Cow
Dung

Bio
Power

Sustaina
ble
Agricultu
re

Bio
Pesticide
s

Draug
ht
Power

Environme
nt
Protection

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

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.

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

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/

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

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

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

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?

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.

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

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

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 oilGhanis 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

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 biopesticide.

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 biopesticide treatment on the growth of maize.

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
2 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.

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.

Health
Cow Provides Emotional stability
Panchgavya is said to be a cure for alldiseases.
Mid wives in Indian villages had been using cowdung fomentation to
pregnant women, small babies and women who had justdelivered babies.
Cow urine and dung was alwayspure, 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

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)

bioenhancer of anti-infective anticancer agent and nutrients

as a

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

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 costeffective way of producing energy for lighting as well as cooking

http://dahd.nic.in/ch6/chap6.htm

Fuel

For 70% population of India in villages, kerosene, gas or electricity is neither

available nor within the villagers 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

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 WasteDriven Supply Side Infrastructure for Data Centers
Source: http://www.financialexpress.com/news/cow-poo-may-soon-power-computers/623462/

Environmental Protection

Suryaketu: Nerve on cows 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.

Benefit and usage of cow dung

By keeping one old cow or bull alive we can protect 6

large trees perannum from felling.
Dung available from one fully grown cow/ bull is around
5.4 tonnes perannum. so dry dung will be around 5.4.
x 0.30 = 1620 kg per annum.
This isequivalent to 712 kg of dry wood.
This amount of wood comes from 6 largetrees
In Vedic culture there are 16 samskaras. These
samskaras are ment to put aperson in right state of
consciousness or mind.
In performing all thesamskaras actually cow dung is
required.
5000 6000 cakes can be made fromone cows 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

Housing

Rigveda describes five types of houses, in detail. namely,

those of stone, of bricks, of wood and bamboos, of cowdung 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

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-cummud 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

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.

Fodder

The difficulty experienced in feeding cows is

due to the fact that our agriculture is industryoriented 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.

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.

DEFENCE

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

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
its 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

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 peoples 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

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

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 m 3
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.

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

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

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

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

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 dont 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

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
Prana i.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

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

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

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

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

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

COW Panch-gavya Products for Natural &

Healthy Living
PERSONAL CARE
Panchgavya Soap
Hair Sampoo
After Shave
Face Cream
Liquid Soap
Tooth Powder

HOME CARE
Phenyl
Mosquito Coil
Utensil Cleaner
Cloth Whitener
Glass Cleaner
Toilet Cleaner

NUTRITION & HEALTH

Cow Ark
Panchgavya Ghritam
Gomutra Asava
Arjun Herbal Tea
Chavan Parash

MEDICINE-1
MEDICINE-2
Ghanvati - Piles Pain Reliever Oil
Skin Ointment
Pachanamrita
Medhor- Obesity Balm
Madhumeh Churan Massage Oil
Nari Priyadarshini Netra Jyoti
Rasamrita
Nasal/ Ear Drop

POOJAN
Dhoop Sticks
Samidha
Hawan Samigri
Pure Ghee
Cow Urine
Poojan Lep

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)

Backup Slides

Role of cow in farming - Qualitative

Bullock pulls the plough and helps in irrigation

Manures the land by its dung and ensures high
fertility of our soil.
Feeds itself on the left over stalks of the cereal
crops
Save Interest of small Farmers from Monopolist
groups.
Helps transport the yield to its final customers.
Food grains produced with manure are
superior in quality and also are more resistant
to rotting. (Source: 1)
Food storage: Cow dung ash,.
Pesticides from cow urine

NOURISHMENT - Qualitatives

Panchagavya : five cow products viz. milk, curd,

ghee,urine and dung.
pure ghee is socialism, while, vegetable ghee is
capitalism
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.

Health: Cow Urine

Pungent, bitter, astringent, sweet and salty. It has five

tastes(rasas).

PROPERTIES:
Pure, toxin destroyer, germicide, balances bile, mucous and
air(kapha, vata, pitta),
It is divine drink of yogis providing divinepowers.
Ganga always resides in cow urine. It is destroyer of all
sins(diseases)
enhances brain power
Controls evil spirits,
Destroyer of all diseases
It cures allbodily and mental illnesses.
It is in the mode of goodness. It brings goodness in

thoughts.
By drinkingit regularly for six months, mans nature
comes in the mode of goodness.

Source: Dr. Amita Gupta, College of Veterinary Science & Animal Husbandary, Mathura : Paper presented for MVSc in 2003.

Antigen toxic| Ameliorative effect of

Ark in human polymorphonuclear
leukocytes

The Ark and Redistilled ark is found to possess total

antioxidant status of around 2.6mmol contributed
mainly by volatile fatty acids (1500mg|litre). These
fatty acids and other antioxidants might be
responsible for the observed ameliorative effect. The
chromosomal aberration caused by chemicals could
be ameliorated by redistilled Ark (1,50,100ul)
Antioxidant status in distillates-0.8mmol.Redistillate2.6mmol.(ammonicalnitrogen- 15mg|litre).

Source : National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nagpur.

Effect of Cow Urine on Wounds

Cow Urine is having antiseptic properties. The

urine implicated Wounds were found less
infected and healing time is also less when
compared to antiseptic cream. Administration
of fresh urine orally has added effect on wound
healing due to immunological properties.

Source: A.K. Maheshwari, A.K.Gupta, AK Das, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences,
G.B.Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar. 263145.

Cow urine

It is the most effective secretion of animal origin with

innumerable therapeutic values
Cow urine-8.90mAura Energy -by consuming it even
cancer can be cured
It contains sulphur, nitrogen, phosphorus,
iron, sodium, potassium, copper,
manganese , carbolic acid and 24 types of salts
It contains 95 % water, 2.5% urea, 2.5% minerals,
hormones ,enzymes, amino acids, cytokines etc
Cow urine is Antibacterial, Antifungal, Antiviral, still
non toxic
It has medicinal and disinfectant properties.
It serves as an effective insecticide and helps in
keeping the plant evergreen
Cows Urine as an Antimicrobial Agent
Gram Negative, Gram Positive bacteria, Fungi
were significantly inhibited by concentrated cows
urine

Source: Dessertation for MSc Microbiology 2006, Shri Shivaji Education Society / Amravtis Science College, Nagpur

Health: Benefits of Cow Urine

Cow urine corrects functioning of liver. So,

liver makes healthy pure blood. It gives
disease resistance power to the body.
It has all elements, which compensate for
deficiency of nutrients in our body. Thus stops
ageing process.So it is called an elixir and
also life giving.
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

Health: Benefits of Cow Urine

Cow urine destroys the poisonous effects of

medicine residues and makes body disease
free.
Cow urine provides mode of goodness. Thus
helps us to perform correct activities by mind.
Ganga resides in cow urine. Ganga is
destroyer of sins, thus cow urine destroys such
previous sins and so diseases are cured.
By regularly taking cow urine before sickness,
we get so much immunity that any attack of
diseases is repulsed.
"Sarve rogaah hi mandagnau" All diseases
begin with mandagni (Low fire i.e. digestive
capacity). If fire is strong, diseases won't occur.

Importance of Go Mutra (Cow Ark)

Cow Ark

provides mode of goodness.

Cow

urine has amazing germicidal power to kill varieties of germs.

Cow

urine balances the disease creating tri-dosas.

Cow

urine corrects functioning of liver.

Offers
It

disease resistance power to the body and stops ageing process.

compensates for bodily mineral deficiency.

Cow
Cow

urine gives strength to brain and heart.

urine destroys the poisonous effects of residues and makes body disease free.

Ganga
The

resides in cow urine, thus cow urine destroys previous sins.

diseases caused by entrance of ghosts in body are cured by intake of cow urine.
Source:

Chandrashekhar Kundle, Bharat chauragade, Ajith Rawal, Nagpur: Paper presented in

World Ayurveda Congress-2002. : Physical and Chemical composition of Urine and Arka and its effects
on human beings is detailed.

Prevention of Pathogenic Free Radicals through Cow Urine

Source: A.K. Singh, P.K. Singh, L.K. Singhal, D.K.Agarwal, College

of Veterinary and Animal Science, Pantnagar, IVRI Izatnagar
Free radicals are molecules, which have lost electron. These free
radicals attack the nearest stable molecule and steal the electron.
This is a chain reaction of destruction. They can attack enzymes,
fat, proteins, etc and causes DNA to mutate.
The Oxygen Free radicals (Reactive oxygen species) are produced
due to Phagocytes, Mitochondria function, Inflammation, Heavy
Exercise,Cigarettes,Smoking,Pollution, adiation, Chemicals, Drugs,
Altered Ozone level, Moulds, Burned Meat.
They cause mutation of cells. This in turn may predispose for
Parkinsons Disease, Alzhimors Disease, Cancer, Sclerosis, Stroke,
Stress, Fibrosis, Cataract, Macular Degeneration, Aging
Cows urine prevents the free radicals formation.

Anti Cancer properties of cow Urine

Source: K Darma, R.S. Chauhan L. Singhal, IVRI, Izatnagar

The cow Urine Therapy is suggested to poses potent Anti Cancer abilities. The
following properties are in listed as responsible for Anti Cancer Results.
DNA repairing potential : Cow urine efficiently repairs the damaged DNA.
Damage of DNA by chemicals is the major cause for Cancer. This property
reduces the spread of malignant cancers and helps fighting tumor.
Apoptosis inhibition : Lymphocytes under go suicidal tendency due to
chemicals. Lymphocytes are major cells, which fights against cancer cells. Cow
urine reduces an apoptosis of Lymphocytes.

Antioxidant Property : The volatile fatty acids show antioxidant properties

which controls damage in DNA.
Antimicrobial Activity : Many viruses are causing cancer. These microbes are
killed by cow urine.
Bioenhancing Property : Bioenhancing are substances which promote and
augment the bioactivity or bioavailabilty or uptake of drugs. This will reduce the
dosage & duration of antibiotic therepy and anticancer drugs like Taxol.Taxol is
used in MCF-7 (breast cancer cells).
Anti free radicals : The free radicals cause cell damage thereby inducing

Cow Dung
cow dung-6m-by wiping the ground floor it protects from
bacteria while the top floor it protects from atomic
emissions.
When we burn cow dung, it balances atmospheric temperature and kills
germs in the air.
The dried cow dung contains menthol, indol,
salammoniac, phenol and formalin.
Cow dung has Antiseptic, Anti radioactive and Anti thermal properties.
It is believed that the smell of fresh cow dung repels
viruses & Bacteria.
At CISH Lucknow, number of Microbes have been isolated
from dung and its preparation.(Pathak et al;2005)
An Actinomycete found in cow dung is effective of
management of dieback , gummosis and fruit rots.

Cow Dung Ash

Water purifying, washing vessels, on wounds,

as pesticide, grain preservation
cow dung is called gold mine or rather why the
scriptures say that Laxmiji (goddess of
fortune/wealth) resides in cow dung

Cow Milk Analysis

Cow Milk

17% Protein
29% Calcium
23% Phsphorus
23% Riboflavin
25% Vitamin D
15% Vitamin B-12
Milk fat is the richest natural dietary source of
conjugated linoic acid (CLA), which has been shown in
animal and cell culture studies to have potent anticarcinogenic (anti-cancer) properties.The experiments
have shown that dietary supplementation with CLA
reduced the incidence of chemically induced tumors in
the epidermis, stomach and mammary glands.
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