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Indian Journal of Pure & Applied Biosciences (IJPAB)
Year : 2021, Volume : 9, Issue : 1
First page : (519) Last page : (526)
Article doi: : http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2582-2845.8583

Sustainable Organic Waste Management by Vermicomposting

Sneh Pareek¹, Manjul Mishra^2* and Susan Raj^3
1Department of Chemistry, Career Point University, Kota, Rajasthan, India
²Dean Applied Science, Career Point University, Kota, Rajasthan, India
³Director HEELS- Emmanuel Mission, President, KESS, Kota, Rajasthan, India
*Corresponding Author E-mail: manjulmishra7@gmail.com
Received: 3.12.2020 | Revised: 8.02.2021 | Accepted: 16.02.2021 

 ABSTRACT

Nowadays researchers are searching for a technology for organic waste management which should be cost effective, ecological sustainable with no adverse effect on environment and beneficial to the society too. Vermiculture appears to be a novel sustainable technology for waste treatment which has a great future in the field of organic waste management. This work focuses on the vermiculture technology or vermicomposting in which nontoxic organic residues of plant and animal wastes are used as substrates to produce vermicast. Organic wastes are converted into usable form of nutrients by organic process. Vermicompost increases the strength of plant growth and it also conditioned soil (Nyamunokara, 2014 & Manyuchi et al., 2014). Vermicomposting helps in degradation of solid wastes, and also it is a cost effective technique. It is a bio-oxidative process which mainly involves Eisenia foetida species of earthworms to carry out the process. In the current study recycling of organic waste like cowdung, dry leaves, domestic wastes etc., has been carried out where moisture content and temperature was maintained. The work focused on the factors that affect the earthworm growth rate in terms of change in length and mass during vermicomposting. Increasing the vermicomposting period, the substrate quantity and the cow dung composition increased the earthworm’s length (Manyuchi & phiri, 2013).

Keywords: Vermicomposting, Vermiwash, Vermicast, Sustainable, Leachate, Vermin compost extract, Cow manure.

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Cite this article: Pareek, S., Mishra, M., & Raj, S. (2021). Sustainable Organic Waste Management by Vermicomposting, Ind. J. Pure App. Biosci. 9(1), 519-526. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2582-2845.8583