gobhar gas & compost

[Guest guest]

I have met recently with Paramananda and Divya Simha prabhus G.B. and heard

about the upturn in Environmental Consciousness at Mayapur temple.

 

 

Hare Krsna dasi wrote on the Cow and related issues Conference, Re compost

making:

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..............>>Manpower or funding for manpower required -- considerable

 

No extra manpower required over and above what is already employed looking

after the cows. (Howard.Lost Science of Organic Cultivation, page 72). It is

simply a different management of that labour. And read on, 'Manurial Output

of Indore Compost': One cart load of Indore Compost, as regards nitrogen

content, is equivalent to two cart loads of farmyard manure....And of course

the other advantages like the increase that can be made in volume of up to

eight fold.

 

Compost making has nothing to do with rotational grazing. Rotational grazing

is just a better way of grazing grass. It has more to do with green

manuring. And what is that.. gobhar gas is efficinet with 200 cows? Who's

got 200 cows? And even if you've got 200 cows only the people who live near

the Goshala can benefit. Compost is a completley different thing. It is

VEDIC.

 

This book on composting was written by Sir Albert Howard C.I.E., M.A.,

A.R.C.S., it would be nice if we could ask him why he wrote it.

 

All I have done is to update it and try and understand it.

 

All our temples have large amounts of waste. All our temples have large

amounts of stool to deal with. All our large temples have a large amount of

devotees. Composting for these temples is simply a management design

problem. Where I have been we have easily worked out methods for composting

all these unwanted wastes without any extra cost in labour which the compost

doeas not pay for. The end result is a highly saleable product of high

nitrifying power. All the Sannyasis and GBC's I know think it is a very good

idea (as did Srila Prabhupada, 'Welcome to the Tollygunge Compost Factory

Paper, see below) to utilise such waste products to grow food or sell it to

make money, for those devotees who are always saying they don't have enough

money.

 

Last year a British company sold 3,000 tons of humanure compost through 170

retail outlets in the UK.

 

 

 

This is the point of practical realisation of something. I don't know if you

have actually tried making this compost but when it has been practised and

the result realised in agriculture one sees it from a different perspective.

The difference between jnan and vijnan.

 

Your servant,

 

Radha Krsna das.

 

 

WELCOME TO THE TOLLYGUNGE COMPOST FACTORY

 

At the same time Bhaktissidhanta Saraswati Thakhur was vehemently preaching

the cult of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu in West Bengal and when our Spiritual

Master Srila Prabhupada, then a medical student, first visited him in 1922.

Howard and Wad were perfecting a composting system at the Institute of Plant

Industry at Indore Central India..

A paper entitled 'The sanitary Disposal and Agricultural Utilization of

Habitation Wastes by the Indore Process' appeared in the Indian Medical

Gazette of February 1934. Wherein was given a detailed account of the

biochemical principles underlying the Indore process of compost manufacture

and its practical working method.

 

At that time the Superintendent of the Governors' Estates, Bengal, set up

such a composting factory at the TOLLYGUNGE municipality near Calcutta,

(where Srila Prabhupada was living). On this site the composting of all

habitation waste and household refuse was carried out by the same 'Indore'

method, and fruit and vegetables and other crops were grown on the resultant

rich compost which made the land very fertile. This compost was made at a

profit and sold to the farmers cheaper than they could buy artificial manure

(chemicals). Srila Prabhupada later told his disciples in Vrindavan that

we, (ISKCON), should also utilize all waste products in the same manner and

produce nice fruits and vegetables which would be offerable to the Supreme

Lord, SRI KRSNA. [VERIFIED BY DHANANJAYA PRABHU AND

KAVICANDRA MAHARAJA]

This work of Sir Albert Howard later went round the world; throughout the

tropics to Africa, to the USA, Europe, New Zealand. The managing director of

the Nairobi composting plant which was RECYCLING the household waste of

60,000 people with a daily output of 20 tones of finished compost, said:

"The results obtained on the controlled experimental plots of

flowers, vegetables, maize, grassland and other crops have been truly

amazing."

 

In England the Southwark and the St. Albans Borough Councils also made wide

use of town refuse by means of composting, rather than sending it to

landfill, by the Indore method and producing HUMUS - which was then used in

agriculture creating astounding fertility, following what is known as the

LAW OF RETURN 'which did much for the Nutrition and health of the urban

population at that time.'

 

"Proper fertility of the land has a direct bearing on health."

"It will in all probability be the means by which Industry can initiate a

new forward move in preventative medicine."

(Howard, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, 1937.)

[Guest guest]

> And what is that.. gobhar gas is efficinet with 200 cows? Who's

> got 200 cows? And even if you've got 200 cows only the people who live near

> the Goshala can benefit.

 

Let me clarify. this is what the agribusiness experts have concluded for use

of

gobar gas in contemporary american agriculture. Has little relevance to this

discussion, probably, sorry for causing any confusion.

 

> Compost is a completley different thing. It is

> VEDIC.

>

 

All of my gardens are fertilized with composted cow dung.

[Guest guest]

Madhava Gosh das wrote:

 

>All of my gardens are fertilized with composted cow dung.

 

Wonderful. now what about all the left over Prasad, Kitchen waste, household

sweepings these can all be composted too. You can have seperate compost

heaps for different items ie for toilet waste? (This can so easily be

included with the new version of the Satvik Indore Toilet (with a new

claim!) - the TOILET YOU NEVER HAVE TO CLEAN OUT!

 

Now that should turn a few heads in ISKCON.