The Dairy Farm, among the first units to be set up at the Ashram, is an important division supplying milk and milk products for the use of the Ashram and the Santhigiri Ayurveda and Siddha Vaidyasala. Cow urine is also used to detoxify Siddha medicines. Cow dung is also supplied from here for use as organic manure.
There are presently 85 cattle in the Dairy Farm. These include the rare 'Vechoor' cows which give milk with high medicinal value. Some of the branch ashrams also have small-time dairy operations.
More than 300 litres of milk is produced everyday from the Dairy Farm at Pothencode. This is also sold to the devotees and the local people. Daily, 50 pails of cow dung are produced and used for organic farming. In a pioneering effort, the Ashram has undertaken the manufacture of bio-fertiliser through a bacterial process, utilizing cow dung and the organic waste generated by the Ashram as the raw materials. The bio-fertiliser called 'Prakrithi Neethi' is used by the Ashram's Agriculture Division and also distributed outside.
