Chilkura Balaji Temple Gifts A Pair Of Oxen

Chilkur Balaji Temple Goshala gifted a pair of well trained Oxen to poor farmer Narayana of Tharur Mandal from Vikarabad.

To promote the concept of cattle based farming Chilkur has always been working in tandem with the need to conserve traditional farming methods.

Laguda Pratipat or Bull worship used to be performed in villages in the past but it has now disappeared.
Chilkur temple celebrated it on a large scale for the second consecutive year.

With the advent of mechanisation, Farmers have switched over to tractor ploughing as maintenance of cattle became an increasingly costly affair and also to cater to the growing demands of the farmers for ploughing at faster pace.

The inherent advantages of cattle ploughing vis-à-vis tractor ploughing needs to be educated more.

After the constant promotion at Chilkur, lots of farmers still are opting cattle ploughing as they are more interested in soil pulverisation rather than concerned about the longer duration needed for turning up earth/laying furrows.

Cattle ploughing has a lots of advantages when compared to tractor ploughing. Tractors when run over the soil make the substrate hard due to its sheer weight making water penetration difficult. On cattle ploughing, the footprints left by the animal itself will act as ‘micro catchment’ conserving rainwater besides help to plough as well as de-weed easier in fields where small sized crops are grown.

Farmers need to be taught the art of attaching the yoke and shaft to the cattle at appropriate positions, so that the cattle ploughing will not die down. We need to encourage more Farmers to conserve traditional agriculture.