This feature has been written by R K Srinivasan in Down To Earth, a Science and Environment Fortnightly, published in 2008 by the Society for Environmental Communications, New Delhi and Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), New Delhi. The case study is about how Shyam Mohan Tyagi, a young farmer, based in Ghaziabad District, Uttar Pradesh, used manure of a community toilet and lowered his cost of cultivation.