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KAMADHENU
couple of milch cows.
The grazing lands were destroyed to make roads, lay railway lines, convert into farms, construct houses and establish industries and in addition there was also illegal encroachment.
The unreasonable attitude of our high-ranking officials received in heritage from the British rule, corrupt politicians and the execution of the hidden agenda of multinational corporations is responsible for the destruction of the grazing lands. These destructive forces have struck at the very roots of the noble cattle rearing in our country through the destruction of grazing lands and cattle.
The 3 crore 32 lakh and 50 thousand acres of land that was under grazing pastures in 1968 reduced to 3 crore 25 lakh acres in 1970 and to 3,22,50,000 acres in 1974. Thus in just six years 10 lakh acres of grazing pastures were destroyed. It is difficult to ascertain the true picture of these figures for 1999-2000.
Quite often these grazing lands were situated next to rivers and lakes so that the cattle could graze and then drink water.
Where there were no river or lakes, there used to be lifts for providing water from the wells. The cattle would graze on the pastures and the soil would get trodden under their hooves, thus becoming loose. Their dung and urine get mixed with the chewed up grass roots and make very good manure, which helped further good growth of grass.
According to the late Venishankar Vasu grazing land is a fundamental matter of life and death for the Hindu society. So long as grazing pastures do not
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