Book Title: Kamdhenu The Wish Cow
Author(s): Gunvant Barvalia
Publisher: Ahimsa Research Foundation

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________________ KAMADHENU The cutting down of fodder supply to our animals after 1967 happened due to the increase of One Crore acres of land under Wheat and 17 lakh acres of land under Sherdi. • The increase in land under wheat resulted in encroachment of grazing land. Unnatural (Cross) breeding under the pretext of attaining higher production of milk. That is the native cows were inseminated through foreign bulls. • The establishment of factories ... Total disregard for the problem of shortage of water resource in the villages. • Shortage of water due to sinking water table as a result of Tubewell project .... ..... Policies framed with vested interest. Policies for dairy, tractor, cotton spinning, veterinary medicines, ancillaries to dairy, import of milk powder, industrial use of animal products. • Permission to destroy unproductive animals. All these impractical and senseless policies resulted in a massive deathblow on the animal husbandry and cow protection machinery in India. Encouragement for the production of grains, like Jowar and Bajra, would have provided the animals with fodder but the Government desisted from it. neither was where protection nor enhancement of .... 21 ..... The total ban on the slaughter of all cattle and protection and enhancement of cattle wealth is the voice from the soul of the Hindu population.

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