Editorial

Abstract

Organic Manure:In the January of 'Indian Farming'the Chief Bio-chemist Ministry of Agriculture,New Delhi,has dwelt at length on the need for building up an effective organisation for the conservation and proper utilisation of the organic matter available in our villages.According to him the chief defects manure preparation in our villages at present are."(a)The failure to conserve preparation cattle urine as possible in manure preparation:(b)insufficient methods of storage of manure adopted at present:(c)the failure to collect available refuse from the farm and village surroundings and to utilise the same in the cattle shed for absorption of urine:(d)the present habit of burning cowdung for fuel and (e)ansence of any arrangements for conservation of human excreta and urine in villages."There is no doubt that if the above defects are remedied the possibilities of increasing our national resources of organic manures are enormous.But the prooblem has been how to achive practical results in our present state of village economy.In our Province,the Agricultural Department has been making sincere and streuous efforts during the past three decades,to effect improvements in the conservation of manure in our villages and a perusal of the earlier administration reports of the department would show that one of the main activities of the propoganda wing has been the attempt to make the villagers realise the importance of conerving organic matter.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.194940

Pages

207 - 208

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© The Author(s), 2026. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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