India is the richest country. This is so not because of gold or paper moneyreserves, but because of cow dung. Cow dung is pure biomass and a country which possess largest quantity of biomass that country is to be considered as richest. Farming with this manure is natural, organic and self-sufficient. In contrast, chemical farming is unnatural, destructive and unsustainable.
The term organic farming does not give the complete picture of the holisticand self sufficient nature of farming practised traditionally in India. Key ingredients of such a holistic farming were:
1. Water shed management with tanks and bunds.
2. Irrigation through bull-run water lifting devices
3. Goshala (milk and other derived products from cows form ingredient in
panchagavya, an excellent manure for the fields)4. Oil extraction system using Oil ghani. Oil cakes are excellent manure
and feed for cows.
5. Sugarcane fields and Jaggery making using ghani (Jaggery is an essential
unit in preparation of jeevamrta)
6. Local pottery for a good seed bank to store the traditional seeds using
herbs.
7. Traditional storage of the harvested grains using herbs and in granaries
(without using chemicals).
8. A joint family system to do the farming.
9. Last but not the least, Lordships Sri Sri Krishna Balaram as the center
of the society.
Since everything cannot be thought of, the modern propagation of organicfarming is piecemeal. Hence, the mission
"Make Vrndavan Villages" approaches the whole subject holistically. Land, cows and Krishna are realwealth. I hope that this issue brings different tenets of such holisticfarming to its readers and inspires them to take up to the mission of "MakeVrndavan Villages".
I congratulate all the devotees to have researched the topic and to have presented in such a lucid manner.
Hare Krishna!
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