Jeevamrut: How to Make and Use It with Gaumutra and Cow Dung

Jeevamrut (also spelt jivamrit) is the heart of natural and zero-budget farming. It is not a fertiliser in the usual sense — it is a microbial tonic that wakes up the life in your soil, made from cow dung, gaumutra and a couple of pantry ingredients. It costs almost nothing and works for everything from a few pots to a full field. Here is how to make it and use it.

What jeevamrut does

Jeevamrut does not feed the plant directly. It multiplies the beneficial microbes and earthworms in the soil, and those microbes then unlock the nutrients already present so plants can absorb them. Think of it as a starter culture for living soil — which is why a small quantity treats a large area.

A simple jeevamrut recipe

This is the classic ratio, scaled for roughly 200 litres of water (adjust down for a home garden):

• 10 kg fresh cow dung — ideally from an indigenous, grass-fed cow.
• 5–10 litres gaumutra (cow urine).
• 2 kg jaggery (gur) — food for the microbes.
• 2 kg besan (gram flour) — a protein source for microbial growth.
• A handful of living soil from under an old tree, to seed the culture.
• 200 litres water.

Mix everything in a drum, cover loosely (it needs air, not a sealed lid), and stir clockwise twice a day. Keep it in the shade. In 48 hours in warm weather — a little longer when it is cold — it is ready. Use it within about a week, while the microbes are most active.

How to use jeevamrut

• Soil drench: apply the strained liquid to moist soil at the base of plants, ideally with irrigation water.
• Foliar spray: dilute further, strain well, and spray on leaves in the cool of early morning or evening.
• Frequency: many natural farmers apply it every 2–3 weeks through the growing season.

Ingredients matter

Jeevamrut is only as good as the cow products in it. Dung and gaumutra from a grass-fed indigenous cow carry a far richer, more diverse microbial load than anything from an industrial dairy on heavy feed and antibiotics. If you want to go further, pair jeevamrut with vermicompost for organic matter and raw cow dung manure for beds — and read the wider uses of gaumutra in gaumutra benefits and uses.

Milkaaru supplies filtered Gir cow gaumutra and cow dung from our own herd in Gothan, Surat, and ships across India — so you can make genuine jeevamrut wherever you farm or garden.