Archive · 23 Aug 2025
Farmer Wins Award with Innovative Cow Dung Composting Solution
Avinash Desai, an engineer-turned-farmer, created a clever machine to help farmers.
This machine helps deal with cow poop!
Farmers often struggle to get rid of cow dung, and it takes a lot of time.
Desai's machine attaches to a tractor and uses a special press to separate the liquid part (slurry) from the solid part.
This way, farmers can use the liquid to water their fields and the solid part as fertilizer, making it easier and faster.
Farmer Avinash Desai won TAFE's Massey Dynastar Contest for his cow dung processing solution.
Desai developed a 'mobile slurry dewatering machine' to separate nutrient-rich liquid and manure.
The machine uses a screw press technology and is powered by a tractor's PTO.
The innovation addresses the difficulties farmers face in handling slurry from bio-digesters.
Desai's solution allows farmers to quickly obtain manure and use slurry water for irrigation.
- Who
- Avinash Desai, an engineer-turned-farmer.
- What
- Avinash Desai developed a 'mobile slurry dewatering machine' to process cow dung.
- When
- Desai won the TAFE's Massey Dynastar Contest.
- Where
- Desai lives in Belagavi district, India, and his family farms in Chachadi.
- Why
- To provide farmers with an accessible solution to process cow dung into manure and liquid fertilizer more efficiently.
- Inventor
- Avinash Desai
- Profession
- Engineer-turned-farmer
- Innovation
- Mobile slurry dewatering machine
- Contest
- TAFE’s Massey Dynastar Contest
- Family Land
- 100 acres
- Crops
- Sugarcane, channa, and jowhar