Young farmer devises organic pesticide in Odisha

At a time when farmers are totally frustrated with the destruction of paddy due to attacks by pests and insects, the ‘organic pesticide’ created by a young farmer from Sambalpur has brought a new hope for other farmers to tackle the situation.

The young farmer Khiraswar Pradhan claims to have created the pesticide by using cow urine that will not only help to control growing pest and insect problems but also will also help in increasing the production.

Pradhan, who hails from a remote village of Bhalugudia under Burla police station of Sambalpur district, has informed that he has come out with this product following a series of tests and experiments over the past one year.
 
Pradhan has started selling the product in the name of ‘Fasal Surakhya Kabach’ at a price of Rs.100  per litre which he said is the ‘cheapest’ pesticide available in the market.

He created the product by mixing cow urine with various medicinal leaves including neem, Arakh and Banyan.

Pradhan also claimed that many farmers have already benefited by the product.

“I collect several medicinal leaves available in the locality and prepare organic pesticide by mixing cow urine with the collected leaves,” Khireswar Pradhan said.

He said that the scientist of the Chipilima Agriculture College (CAC) Prakash Pradhan has already certified the product.

He however disclosed that desi-cow urine yields better result than the urine of hybrid cows. While describing his story, Khireswar informed that he was a marginal farmers till 2009. But in that year, RSS and Bajarang Dal workers seized several cows that were smuggled for slaughtering.

“They suggested me to keep these cows. Though I agreed I did not know what to do with such a huge numbers of cows. But I got an idea during one a training camp at Benares in the same year”, Khireswar said.

According to him, he collected the urine of the cows every day and with the cow urine he prepared pesticide.

“This is not an easy job for me. I have faced many problems during last two years. But now I am happy with my product. I am thankful to various spiritual organizations and individual for their encouragement”, Khireswar said.

On the other hand, farmers are happy to see positive result of the product. “It works better than other pesticides,” said, Balaram Bhoi from from Chipilima.