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DUNG IS GOLD MINE
by Shri Venishankar M. Vasu

PREFACE

One of the few nectars of this world is water, another is milk and the third one is cattle dung. With onset of what we call "modern civilization", we have been despising a few things and one of these is cattle dung. This is so because we have forgotten that the basis of our progress as a race depends on the optimal use of our resources, an important resource base being bovine dung. If a choice before mankind were put in crystal clear terms as to whether it chooses cattle dung or desertification of the earth, it would have definitely shed its despise for cattle dung and chosen it between the two.

Shri Venishankar M. Vasu has brought out in simple language the hard facts, figures and proofs of the consequences of government policy of slaughtering animals which are either not yielding milk or are useless as draught animals. The government has forgotten the third most important service rendered by animals i.e. providing dung which has been at the root of well laid out social and economic systems adopted by the Aryan population of this great nation since time immemorial. 

The policies of state patronized, encouraged and rewarded violence have engulfed all living beings. This has happened due to the destruction of the concept of dung utility and espise for cattle dung. 

The purpose of this essay is to highlight the unique and essential role of bovines and bovine dung in our economy and lifestyles and to stop the slaughter of our precious animals.

THE ONLY SOLUTION TO PROBLEMS OF SHORTAGE OF FOOD GRAINS, WATER, FUEL, SHELTER, GOOD HEALTH, NUTRITION, ERADICATION OF POVERTY, AND UNEMPLOYMENT - DUNG, DUNG AND ONLY DUNG ! !

What is despised of today by giving it the name of "dung-economy" is in fact the nucleus of prosperity of the Indian people. And that is why our ancient economists have described dung as the abode of wealth and prosperity and thereby impressed upon the unique utility of dung in relation to the Indian economy.

If we accept the concept that dung is the nucleus of our prosperity and has no substitute, the following will follow:

I bow in reverence to such obliging ruminants on behalf of humankind!

With growing age, an animal may become useless for milk production, field work or for breeding. However, its age is never a detriment to its service of providing dung.

By unfrittered breeding of cattle, the government has snatched away the availability of precious dung from the people and pushed the entire population in the dungeon of starvation, drought, poverty and chaos in all spheres of life.

And hence, Oh! my fellow countrymen, awake, rise and call for a halt to the government machinery and order them to reverse the policy which they have set in to snatch away the precious wealth of dung from our life.

As a result of disruption in the availability of dung, we have suffered on many fronts, like:

1. Food grains have become costly and without the required nutritional value.

2. Loss of soil fertility.

3. Diminished opportunity to practice several vocations for both Hindu and Muslim population.

4. The health of crores of women in the country at peril

5. Our religious rights snatched away.

6. Ayurveda, our ancient system of medicine has suffered a severe blow

7. Fuel has become scarce and costlier.

8. Ash of dung very valuable to us is not available now.

9. The flow of passing on lessons of rich experience from one generation to the other has stopped.

10. Our forests are gradually being destroyed.

11. Many social evils like addiction to liquor have become widespread.

12. An acute scarcity of residential houses.

GROWING NUTRITIOUS AND CHEAP FOOD GRAINS

No other fertilizer in the world is as cheap and harmless as dung fertilizer.

The Indian farmer is able to grow the best and cheapest food grains in the world with the help of dung manure. This alone is capable of providing stability to the Indian economy. However, due to western influence the government of India has resorted to unfrittered slaughter of animals resulting in disruption of availability of cattle dung, forcing farmers to use costly and harmful chemical fertilizers, thereby pushing up the prices of food grains and ultimately affecting the entire economy by throwing it in the dungeon of inflationary pressures. By cutting down the availability of bullocks and forcing the use of tractors, another dimension has been added to the entire murky affair. As a result, the once independent Indian farmer has now become dependent on others for availability of chemical fertilizers and tractors. He has become dependent on fertilizer plants, railways and money lenders or banks. The farmers have been pressurized into using chemical fertilizers by resorting to false propaganda about the advantages of chemical fertilizers. Besides, he is left with no other option because natural dung manure is not available to him. The use of chemical fertilizers might have marginally increased agricultural production. However, the cost of production has increased manifold and in addition the taste as well as the nutritional value from food grains have been lost. Rice is one of the main crops in our agricultural system. A major part of our land is under cultivation of rice and quantum-wise also, the maximum production is of rice and hence these figures relate to rice only. The table (1.1) indicates rising cost and production of rice per hectare in a few states with use of chemical fertilizers in India.

Table 1.1: Increase in rice production costs per hectare with use of chemical fertilizers as compared to yield.

Indian Agriculture in Brief Published by Agriculture Ministry of Central Government. 19th Edition pp 274-279

Jowar and bajra are the staple diets for the poor and the stalk of these plants, which is the main food for cattle, have registered a growth in production expenses by 47% whereas its production has increased by only 5.5%.

Table 1.2 Comparison of rising costs for jowar and bajra with static yields.

If agriculture was based on the services of bullocks alone, and instead of chemical fertilizers only had dung or natural manure been used, the farmer would have been spared of the investment in tractors and the interest cost  of such investments or the rent of hiring tractors. He would have been spared of the heavy cost of chemical fertilizers and interest, the cost of pesticides, the investment cost in motor pumps and its interest cost and the cost incurred for diesel or electricity for running such motor pumps. Thus he would have been spared a lot of heavy and at the same time unnecessary expenses which now get added to his cost of production. By burdening the farmer with unnecessary expenses, the cost of production for farmers has increased beyond their capacity. The food grains have become very costly, which has given rise to various agitations, riots, strikes by farmers demanding rise in prices of agricultural produce, and resultant chaos all over the country. Surprisingly, even after allowing the price increase to farmers because of violence and agitation, the farmers have not been benefited. The farmer has become a pawn in the hands of powerful exploiters who are exploiting the entire population through their evil designs. The price increase secured by farmers has been shared between oil and diesel producing countries and manufacturers of chemical fertilizers, tractors, pesticides and government agencies, leaving the farmer where he was! And hence, if anybody is responsible for agitation, riots, strikes, etc. aimed at securing increase in agricultural produces, it is the government functioning under the malicious guidance of western institutions. The government has endangered the interest of the masses by stopping the flow of cattle dung, and thus they have committed an inexcusable crime. Why should the people of this nation, not put them on trial for this crime?

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