Cow dung cow urine can drive the economy? According to the Global Network, the chief minister of India's Madhya Pradesh, Hiraf Jingh Singh Johan, publicly declared: "If the right system is established, cow dung and cow urine can play a key role in strengthening the national economy, which will increase the income for the people and make India more financially capable." He also said cow dung and cow urine could be made into pesticides and even drugs.
As soon as this statement came out, even Indian netizens were not calm, some people said, "Not only education, they also need some common sense!" Others felt that the minister had lost the face of the country and hoped that the international media would not report on it and "see how my country is described in the world."
Indian netizens hope that the international media will not report on this matter
However, it is this kind of strange statement that some people even help to play the round field and even support, such as "I know that India is a large country with a large population." So obviously there will be a lot of different people with different ideas" and "cow dung does make a good fertilizer" and so on.
Some people play round the field for India, saying that they are many people and have everything they want
In fact, making cow dung and cow urine into insecticides and drugs is not the most subversive cognition. In India, the role of cow dung is incredible, some apply cow dung to the whole body to "bathe", and some directly drink cow urine, which locals believe can prevent and control the new crown pneumonia. Previously, Indian organizations launched "cow dung chips", claiming to reduce radiation and resist virus invasion, and during some traditional festivals, many Indian villagers will participate in the "cow dung war", the scene is quite spectacular.
Cow manure chips
Why are Indians so obsessed and obsessed with cow dung? It is mainly related to religion and tradition. Most people in India today are deeply Hindu, and the ruling People's Party adheres to Hindu nationalism, so many of Hindu practices that are incompatible with the modern world are still popular, and the worship of cattle is one of the most representative manifestations.
The cow has an important place in Hindu mythology and is believed to be the embodiment of the goddess of the earth, and the cow and the Brahmin were created on the same day by the Creator, and the mount of the most powerful god, Shiva, is also a bull. In this way, the cow became a sacred animal, especially the white tumor cow, and it was also the sacred cow among the sacred cows, revered by devout Indians. They roam the streets, no one dares to confront and slaughter them, and they are fed.
Cattle are revered in India
Since the status of cattle is so high, then its excrement cow dung and cow urine naturally become "gods" and are endowed with many magical attributes. To say that India's cow dung is also really much, there are more than 300 million cattle in the country, according to statistics, a cow can produce 7 tons of cow manure a year, and a cattle cow has 5 to 6 tons a year, so it is estimated that the amount of cow manure produced in India will be about 1.5 billion tons per year, and each person can be divided into 1 and a half tons, which is quite exaggerated.
There are quite a few cattle in India
If this amount of cow manure is not handled well, it will cause serious pollution problems. Because cow manure contains 10% to 20% crude protein, crude fat 1% to 3%, nitrogen-free extract 20% to 30%, crude fiber 15% to 30%, "nutrients" are very high, if discarded without treatment, it will stink, will also breed a variety of pathogens and parasites, and raw cow dung can not be directly into the farmland to make fertilizer, will burn roots and seedlings.
Therefore, cow dung must be dried or fermented to be used, and Indians have a long history in this regard, in addition to being used as organic fertilizer after fermentation, cow dung is also diluted with water and applied to the wall, which is said to repel mosquitoes. The "cow dung cake" is more popular in India, people collect fresh cow dung, mix it with hay and shoot it flat and dry it, and make it into a cow dung cake.
Make cow dung cakes
Of course, this kind of cake is not used to eat, its function is many, due to the high content of organic matter, it can be used to make fuel for fire heating and cooking, and it can also repel mosquitoes and insects when lit. These may seem normal, but due to the Indians' obsessive belief in cow dung, the following usages are a bit hot-eyed!
For example, Indians believe that cow dung cake can take away bacteria, viruses and negative energy in the air, because it can be used as an air freshener, so that when performing religious rituals or doing yoga, a piece of cow dung cake should be lit to purify the body and mind. There are also people who directly use cow dung as a medicine, believing that cow dung has various miraculous effects, such as beauty. As a result, ground cow dung is added to toothpaste, masks, soaps, hair oils and other products.
Cow dung cake is believed to have a miraculous effect
Cow dung cake is not only popular in India, but also brought to the world by them, Amazon actually has someone selling cow dung cake, each box contains 2 to 8 pieces of cake, each piece is about 200 grams, a box of asking price is equivalent to 30 to 40 yuan, and even sold out of stock, of course, most of the buyers are Indians living in Europe and the United States.
If these practices are still "not tasteful enough", then directly smearing cow dung on the body is a "heavy mouth". Because of the sacred nature of cow dung, Indians feel that it will be beneficial to apply it to their bodies, so during the festival some parents push their children into the cow dung pile on the ground, thinking that it will bring good luck and a healthy body.
Indians apply cow dung to prevent COVID-19
Now that the COVID-19 pandemic is raging, some Indians firmly believe that cow dung can prevent the new crown and apply cow dung directly to their bodies. What is even more exaggerated is that India also has a special "Songkran Festival", that is, the Eight Festivals of Gorha. On this festival, people go door to door to collect cow dung, then transport it to the temple to receive "blessings" and pile it up on the square.
Then began a "cow dung war", the participants scattered cow dung into the air, but also smashed on others, the more cow dung on the body, indicating that the person is luckier, so everyone is very fanatical, and women are not allowed to participate in the activity.
The fierce scene of the cow dung war
Cow dung, although not very elegant, does have many uses, but Indians drink cow urine, which is a bit puzzling. In India, cow urine is considered to cure diseases and even cure cancer, just like cow dung, and there are really "pure organic" fresh cow urine sold on the Internet. In March 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic raged in India, Delhi held a party to drink cow urine, and more than 200 people drank cow urine on the spot to fight the new crown virus, and participants said that participants would also bathe in cow dung. Using cow urine to prevent covid-19 is obviously nonsense.
People drinking cow urine
If this official in India's Madhya Pradesh really believes that cow dung can promote economic development, he can learn from the experience of China and the United States and make full use of the characteristics of cow dung as fuel to create value. As early as 1989, California built a 16,000-kilowatt cow manure power plant, consuming 40 tons of cow manure per hour, which not only processed cow dung, but also generated electricity to make money.
In addition to being used as fertilizer, China once built a biogas digester in every household many years ago, and put cow dung, pig manure and other animal manure into the pool to ferment biogas, which can be used for cooking, lighting, bathing, etc. Later, due to the lack of raw materials, most of them were abandoned. However, the modern large-scale intensive agricultural production model has provided conditions for the utilization of biogas, and Germany has built large biogas digesters to generate electricity, and the application of biogas in China has gradually begun to revive.
Biogas power generation facilities in Germany
As for taking cow dung baths, making drugs and cosmetics, and even drinking cow urine directly, most of them are out of religious belief, and they want to rely on this to stimulate the economy.