| ORGANIC
MANURE |
CHEMICAL
FERTILIZERS |
| 1.
It is natural food and nutrient for soil and crop. |
1.
This is synthetic and unnatural food. |
| 2.
Besides nitrogen and potassium substances it
contains 16 other necessary nutrients. |
2.
Such nutritious elements are totally absent. |
| 3.
Improves texture of the soil and its fertility. |
3.
Damages the texture of the Gradual
increasing use makes soil weaker and weaker day by
day and it becomes ultimately barren. Increase in
use raises the cost of production also. |
| 4.
Promotes growth of earth worm and such other
creatures which increase the fertility of the soil
and make it powdery. When the soil becomes
powdery; air, water and light flow freely into the
soil which maintain humidity and temperature of
the soil and this controls pests. |
4.
Earth worms and other creatures which help
increase of fertility of the soil get destroyed by
use of chemical fertiliser. The soil becomes hard.
The ploughing expenses increase and instead of
bullocks the farmer has to resort to tractor and
later on tractor with more power. |
| 5.
At the time of scanty rains the soil holds
water if farmyard manure is used. In case of
excessive rain, water is drained out. During
extreme cold the soil remains warm. |
5.
Due to weak holding capacity for water and
humidity, soil needs repeated irrigation. There is
scarcity of irrigation water in most of the Indian
villages. Further the soil is unable to protect
itself against extreme hot or extreme cold
conditions. |
| 6.
The nourishment is provided slowly to the
plants so that through out the life of the plant
nourishment is available and hence the amount
spent on organic manure gets maximum return. Its
effect remains for 1 to 2 years. |
6.
Chemical fertiliser gets dissolved immediately on
application and hence in case of excessive rain,
either it seeps into the soil or flows away with
water. In conditions of scanty rain it dries up
the crop as it gets exhausted in short time. The
full use of expenses incurred are not available.
Its application is sufficient for one crop. |
| 7.
The crop grown with the help of farmyard
manure can be preserved with the help of
traditional substance, urine of cow, dung ash, dry
leaves of neem tree or tobacco leaves. |
7.
Due to unnatural fast rate of growth the
crop of food grains remain weak and becomes
susceptible to the attack by pests. To save the
crop from pests the twin brother of fertiliser
i.e. pesticides are needed in large quantity. |
| 8.
In countries like America and Australia there is
growing market for food grains and vegetables
which are free from use of chemical fertilisers
and pesticides. The crop grown without the use of
chemical fertilisers, pesticides, fetch more than
1 to 2 times the usual prices. |
8.
Due to assimilation of poisonous substances in the
soil as well as in crop, level of poisonous
substances in then food of animals and human
beings are increasing. |
| 9.
Manufacturing of compost manure takes care of
disposal of dung, urine, household waste and other
solid wastes. This helps in making the environment
healthy and beautiful. |
9.
Use of chemical fertilisers creates pollution of
the air, water, soil and vegetation. |
| 10.
The food grains, vegetables and fruits grown with
the help of farmyard manure are pure, healthy,
tasty and have longer shelf life. |
10.
The farm products rown with the help of chemical
fertilisers are tasteless, harmful and perishable
much faster. |
| 11.
The organic manure can be manufacture in one's own
farm with the help of one's own family members and
cattle. |
11.
Chemical fertilisers have to be either imported or
manufactured in large plants. This drains away our
wealth from our family, our village and our
country. |
| 12.
Cattle dung. soil household wastes, human
and water which are the inputs for farmyard
manures are easily available and are renewable
sources of raw material |
12.
The raw-material or inputs for manufacture of
chemical fertilisers are mineral and petroleum
based which are not renewable sources. When these
will exhaust in a few years there will be shortage
of chemical fertilisers and because farming will
be by then totally dependent on chemical
fertilisers, no crop would be grown in the absence
of chemical fertiliser. |
| 13.
The farmyard manure or organic manure can be
manufactured by any person irrespective of his
age, gender or level of literacy. The capital
needed is also negligible. |
13.
The manufacturing process of chemical fertiliser
is highly technical and beyond the comprehension
of common man. It also require colossal capital
and Thousands of technocrats. |
| 14.
As the farmyard manure is manufactured in the
village and in the farm itself it can be easily
transported with the help of human and cattle
labors. This helps in preservation and development
of our cattle wealth |
14.
The transportation of chemical fertiliser imposes
a very heavy and yet unnecessary burden on all our
means of transport such as rail, road and wearer
transport. The energy required for this
transportation is very costly, very limited and
has to be imported. To purchase petrol and diesel
from the Arab nations we have to export meat in return. This
compels us to slaughter our precious cattle and
even young claves. During 1972 our meat export was
2000 tons in a year. This has now increased to
more than 1 lakh ton. |
| 15.
A farmyard manure is manufactured in the open
atmosphere of the village, the relation between
nature, human and cattle is mentioned due to their
close co-operation. |
15.
The chemical fertilizers are processes in
suffocating conditions in giant plants which
affect the health of workers in these plants. The
process also increase pollution. |
| 16.
Farmyard manure makes us self-reliant. |
16.
The farmer has become dependent on the
industrialists, traders and foreign countries
which control production of chemical fertilizer
and the farmer is subjected to exploitation by all
of them. |
| 17.
Farmyard manure and the agricultural activity
dependent on farmyard manure opens up individual
self-employment to crores of people in villages.
This prevents their migration to cities and thus
keep the family life intact. It helps in solving
the problem of unemployment and disguised
employment in rural areas. |
17.
Manufacturing of chemical fertilizers and allied
activities can provide employment any to a few
lakh of persons.
|
| 18.
A total reliance on organic and farmyard manure
will generate production of manure worth Rs.45,000
crores in villages. the production of farmyard
manure in cities will be free from clutches of
poverty, hunger and unemployment. The all
additional production will be worth Rs.1 lakh
crores. |
18.
Use of chemical fertilizer will drawn the nation
in ocean of external debt and in times to come the
manufacturing activity will come to a halt.
|
| 19.As
farmyard manure is manufactured from cattle dung,
the old and aged cattle will also become useful
due to their dung yielding capacity. This will
stall the slaughter of cow and its progenies and
thus help in protection of our ancient Indian
culture.
|
19.
The system associated with use of chemical
fertilizer is based on giant machinery and thus
ultimately it will result in destruction of our
cattle particularly the bullocks. Even today our
country faces shortage of bullocks and we do not
have sufficient number of tractors. We can never
have sufficient number of tractors and even if we
have, the diesel required to operate these tractor
will not be available. The tractor will not
survive on grass of fodder, it will not yield milk
nor bullocks or fertilizer On the contrary it will
only add to pollution. |
| 20.
The energy use in manufacturing of organic or
farmyard manure is returned in the form of food
grain. |
20.
The energy use in the manufacture of chemical
fertilizer is not returned in the form of food
rain production, and hence it proves a loosing
proposition. |
| 21.
The seeds of crops grown with the help of farmyard
manure have greater production capacity for future
crops. |
21.
The seeds of crop grown with the help of chemical
fertilizer do ot have this capacity. |
| 22.
Farmyard manure is a blessing for the human race. |
22.
Chemical fertilizer is a curse for the human race. |
