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SME Times News Bureau | 23 Apr, 2019
The Rashtriya Kamdhenu Aayog or National Cow Commission will suggest the
new government at the Centre to make it mandatory for companies like
KRIBHCO and IFFCO to manufacture 10 per cent bio-fertilizers from cow
dung and cow urine out of their total annual production.
It will
also propose incentives for private fertilizer companies for producing
bio-fertilizers and bio-pesticides from the cow dung and cow urine.
The
combined effect of the proposals, the Aayog argues, would significantly
reduce country's dependence on imported fertilizer and save the
precious foreign exchange.
"It will ensure proper use of cow dung
and cow urine. We are importing almost 92 per cent of the chemical
fertilizer. Production of organic fertilizer would reduce the import and
save foreign exchange.
"It (mandatory production of
bio-fertilizer) would change the mindset of people as they would find it
remunerative enough to do dairy farming and other related activities,"
Rashtriya Kamdhenu Aayog chairman Ballabhbhai Kathiria told IANS.
"It will have positive and long-lasting effect on the economy," he added.
Once
the new government comes to the power and budgetary works start, the
proposal would be moved through the Ministry of Chemicals and
Fertilizers.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired the Union
Cabinet last February approved setting up of Rashtriya Kamdhenu Aayog
for conservation, protection and development of cows and their progeny.
The efforts of Aayog are expected to result in increased growth of livestock sector benefiting women and marginal farmers.
Asked
about difficulties in sourcing of cow dung for manufacturing
bio-fertilizer, Kathiria said it won't be a problem given that there are
1,000 goshalas and Pinjarapoles (shelters where aged and sick farm
animals are kept) in the country which have at least 1,000 cows.
"So,
raw material would be readily available. Just like milk is collected
from villages and brought to cities, cow-dung and cow urine would be
collected using (suitable) vehicles. Then it will go to the
manufacturing plants," the Kamdhenu Aayog Chairman said.
Kathiria
argued that the move would reduce distress in the farm sector besides
giving major push to organic farming that will create a healthy India.
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