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Abstract

Starvation of the soil is the root cause of our own starvation.Mother Earth is truly a living being and if we do not nourish her she cannot nourish us.Man must have noticed the invigorating effect on the earth of the dung and urine of his cattle and how the sweeping o his cow-sheds after they had rotted gave out a smell like rich vigur soil.In this way he must have arrived at the preparation and use of farm yard manure.the roughers and oldest form of 'compost'.In some countries this pricess developed naturally though age long intelligent practice of the peasantry into a highly advanced method of composting as in China where the cultivator has developed a record yield per acre.In other it remained at or reverted to the primitive stages in the Indian villages to-day.With the advent of modern science and mechanisation of Agriculture came the introduction of artificial manures especially in the East.Gradually livestock got reduced and the countries which started the modern methods began to recognise their dangers and the scientists are now recommend- ing compost manure as the best of all nourishments for the soil.It contains something of everything that is present in the artificial manures and in addition it is full of rich moisture retaining body building humus.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.194955

Pages

286 - 287

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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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