What are the differences between the earlier methods of agriculture/livestock rearing and the ones followed now?
The old system was better. In livestock rearing, in most families the dairy animals and the sheep and goats were kept together. The sheep would provide wool and people spun their own cloth and needed to buy less from the market. The sheep is such an animal that you can gradually get a herd from one sheep. You can get 16 sheep in four years. Other than this we reared cows, buffaloes and goats and worked hard on their upkeep to get sufficient milk and ghee. Now that there are no cows and oxen and buffaloes, there is no dung to be found. Without any dung how does one grow grain? Now they are bringing chemical fertilisers and that is not being used properly because there is no training in how to use it in the right way. It is being misused. No soil tests are carried out and any fertiliser is put which affects the crop adversely. Earlier there were savings after consumption but bad times are upon us now. If people want to make amends they can still plant ritha (soap nut trees) and save on t
