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What is vermiculture? Add a note on vermicomposting.

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Vermiculture is the process of garden composting using worms. Overtime, all organic material naturally goes through the process of decomposition. ... The worm castings are nutrient rich. Vermiculture allows a grower to create organically rich compost year round.

Vermicomposting is a type of composting in which certain species of earthworms are used to enhance the process of organic waste conversion and produce a better end-product. .

It is a mesophilic process utilizing microorganisms and earthworms.

Earthworms feeds the organic waste materials and passes it through their digestive system and gives out in a granular form (cocoons) which is known as vermicompost.

VERMICOMPOST PRODUCTION

A wide range of organic residues, such as straw, husk, leaves, stalks, weeds etc can be converted into vermicompost.

vermicompost production are livestock wastes, poultry litter, dairy wastes, food processing wastes, organic fraction of MSW, bagasse, digestate from biogas plants etc.

Earthworms consume organic wastes and reduce the volume by 40–60 percent. 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.

The moisture content of castings ranges between 32 and 66 percent and the pH is around 7. The level of nutrients in compost depends upon the source of the raw material and the species of earthworm.

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Vermiculture is the way of composting using worms to speed up the process...

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