b'4 GRAIN BYPRODUCTS When its time to harvest crops in the field and prepare them for transport, little portions of the plant inevitably break off. In the rice belt of Odisha, India, where farmers grow the grain abundantly, this byproduct is known as broken rice.Many farmers Heifer supports make use of this substance by recycling its nutrients back into feed for their livestock. Heifer India farmers, for example, use bran, the hard outer layer of cereal grains, as a PHOTO BY PR ANAB K . AICH key ingredient in their backyard poultry feed.Farmers mix bran with moringa, a vitamin-rich leafy green found commonly in parts of India and The ingredients that constitute the nutrient-rich chicken feedAfrica, as well as wheat, mustard oil cake, cooked made by Heifer India farmers. Top row: salt, wheat, mineralrice, water and other ingredients, to produce a mixture. Middle row: azolla leaf, broken rice, rice bran.nutritious feed for healthy birds.Bottom row: moringa leaves, mustard oil cake, cooked rice.5LIVESTOCK URINE Its not just solid livestock waste that Heifer farmers put to good use. Many agricultural producers in Africa andAsia also separately collect theiranimals urine.Often the animal enclosures farmers construct have slightly slanted floors, Bhandari said, which allows the liquid from the animals to drain into a pit for collection. After farmers mix in water, the solution is sprayed on crops as a fertilizer and insect repellant. Livestock urine contains highPHOTO BY RUSSELL POWELLamounts of nitrogen and phosphorus, natural chemicals that promote plant growth and increase the micronutrients in soil, so utilizing theAeysha Siddka feeds one of her cows substance on growing crops boostsfodder in Kachutia village, Bangladesh. farmers productionand income. Heifer farmers repurpose livestock urine for crop growth and insect repellant.HEIFER.ORG |23'