Indigenous (Desi) cows and it's relevance for natural farming
Greetings! I would like to write brief notes about the Desi cows and it's importance for natural farming. As I mentioned in my previous blog post we are gearing up to move away from the present practices of applying chemical based fertilizers and pesticides. Meaning, we would have to find alternate sources of increasing fertility of land. In that line, cow manure proved to be superior among other forms of fertilizing the land. contains various nutritional components, including minerals, vitamins, potassium, nitrogen, oxygen, carbon, cellulose, mucus and lignin and increases the earth-worms. Since we have cover crop which helps to increase the carbon percentage in soil and also add all required micro nutrients which cow dung failed to add in sufficient manner. with the combination of the above 2 methods., cover crops before main crop and cow dung with urine by-products proved to be major contributors to increase soil fertility. Indigenous (Desi) cows milk contains A2 milk fats., w...