- Ingredient Agriculture Waste
- A wide range of agricultural residues – such as straw, husk, leaves, stalks, weeds etc can be converted into vermicompost.
- Ingredient Household Waste
- Other potential feedstock for vermicompost production are livestock wastes, poultry litter, dairy wastes, food processing wastes, organic fraction of MSW, bagasse, digestate from biogas plantsetc.
- Ingredient Animal Dung
- Cow & Buffalo Dung is mixed to the Agriculture & Household Waste to initiate the Vermi Process
- Vermi Process
- Earthworms consume organic wastes and reduce the volume by 40–60 percent.
- Output
- Each earthworm weighs about 0.5 to 0.6 gram, eats waste equivalent to its body weight and produces cast equivalent to about 50 percent of the waste it consumes in a day.
- Process Management
- The moisture content of castings ranges between 32 and 66 percent and the pH is around 7.
- Quality of Output
- The level of nutrients in compost depends upon the source of the raw material and the species of earthworm.
Vermicompost – Understanding Process
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