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Geetanjali Krishna writes how Government’s love for cows, is causing economic woes to farmers around Delhi-NCR.

Abandoned cattle is of little economic value.

Geetanjali Krishna writes how Government’s love for cows, is causing economic woes to farmers around Delhi-NCR.

52 lakh abandone cows

• Since cattle can not be sold for ancillary uses of meat and leather, owners are abandoning them on the streets.

• Geetanjali writes, “Experts estimate that land equivalent of 17,200 football fields would be needed to accommodate all of UP’s abandoned cattle.”

• It takes INR 80 to INR 100 per day to feed a cow.

Saving crops:

• It costs INR 70,000 to install blade wire fence to ward off animals.

• Farmers are losing upto INR 5,00,000 per acre due to the menace.

• Private cow shelters are charging INR 1600 per cow.

How can cow shelters make money:

• Beejom’s project Dung Ho is developing different products from cow waste such as compost, dung logs, incense sticks and flower pots made from compressed cow dung.

• Shelters can produce bio gas. By investing INR 5,00,000, a shelter with 100 heads of cattle would be able to generate electricity to the value of Rs 4,38,000 per year.

Dung more:

• India’s cow crisis part 1.

• India’s cow crisis part 2.