[Stoves] Dung as fertilizer and fuel

[Jeff Davis]

Dear Dr. Karve,


Thank you. What you wrote makes great sense.


Jeff


> Dear Jeff,
> you are reading too much in the use of dung cakes in India.  In the
> predominently agricultural areas of the country, there is a dearth of wood
> and therefore dung is used as fuel. The introduction of hybrid cow
> (heifers
> born to an Indian cow artificially inseminated by a pedigreed European
> bull's semen) has lead to higher milk yield with  farmers switching over
> to
> dairy farming. Dung is a byproduct of the dairy industry and there is good
> demand for dung cakes as fuel, which gives additional income to the dairy
> farmers. Cremation of dead bodies requires a lot of fuel and in areas
> short
> of wood, dung cakes come in handy for this purpose. Since everybody has to
> die some time, there is a steady demand for dung cakes for this purpose.
> Some of the larger dairy units have already started to use a filter press
> to
> remove the water from the dung and to use a briquetting machine to make
> dung
> briquettes. Such a standardised and densified product is used as fuel by
> brick manufacturers.
> Yours
> A.D.Karve


-- 
Jeff Davis

Some where 20 miles south of Lake Erie, USA