Rourkela: Prakriti Gau Anusandhan Kendra Pvt Ltd, a startup of the National Institute of Technology (NIT) here is doing innovative work in the field of organic manure and pesticides. The start-up was established in November 2020 by Gokul Minj, the present founder and CEO of the company. Minz’s objective was to go green with utilisation of organic products like cow dung and urine in farming and agriculture as an alternative for chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Minz had realised the harm caused to the soil and crop through the use of chemical fertilizers containing nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. He decided to do away with the use of such fertilizers and set out on fulfilling his mission.
So, he decided to produce environment-friendly organic manure and pesticides which would be economical also. He and his team worked on a specific mixture of cow dung, other organic components and rock phosphates. It was found out that the entire mixture was fully absorbed by the plant in the first or second cropping. Minz himself designed a mechanical apparatus for making the manure mixture easily. The roughly granulated manure then passes through another machine which helps in getting small, dried and uniform granules ready for packaging in small packets as ‘Prakriti Sanjivani’. The start-up has the capacity to produce 10 tonne of organic manure per month.
