Our agriculture and industry produce 100 min. tons of food grains, 10 min. tons of sugarcane, 2.2 min. tons of sugar and an equal tonnage of jaggery, 10 min. tons of cement, millions of tons of spices, vegetables and fruits, 5.8 mln. tons of minerals oils, 66.5 min. tons of coal, thousands of tons of tea, and coffee, 50,000 tons of
rubber, 11.1 min. tons of paper and boards, 6.9 min. tons of pig Iron, 4.5 min. tons of steel, 600 min. tons of grass, 6 min. tons of groundnut and a few min. tons of other oilseeds, soap and millions of tons of chemicals, fertilizers, salt and 6.5 min. tons of cotton and equal if not more tonnage of cloth and yam. 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. Therefore it will be seen that if this poor bullock is done with either by slaughter or by negligence, nothing but chaos will result. And yet we are moving in this direction simply following the advice of the so-called experts (both foreign and indigenous).

Slaughter your cow, and your bullock supply is slaughtered.. Neither trucks nor railways can be built up to replace this transport for obvious economic and technical reasons, roads and so on. Even if we plan and carry out the mechanized transport (a remote possibility) would our farmer be able to bear the cost of such transport? Instead, if we only export the diesel only expected to be consumed in such eventuality (of total mechanized transport) we will earn enough foreign exchange. Instead of adopting the right way if we slaughter our cattle which actually are much lesser than required, we have no alternative but to face a nationwide unprecedented famine and chaos.

let us examine further the price on account of cow and bullock shortage. A farmer grows food in his field If he has bullocks he would bring his produce to city in his cart and therein he incurs no extra expenses. But once we slaughtered bullocks, his produce has to be transported by truck and of course the cost thereof, resulting in higher price of his produce, will be borne. Ultimately by the Consumer Price-rise results, and transport by trucks would at every stage go on adding to the costs so that the farmer can never sell his produce below the present rates and the poor millions ground in the price mill may never hope for a respite and for an easy and ample life. This is not imagination, it is a fact based on careful study.

As we have seen our agriculture depends upon the cattle and its removal does not seem possible even in distant future. Our food supply from ploughing of the field to the delivery of grain at our home, depends on the son of the cow, the bullock.