IJFANS International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences

ISSN PRINT 2319 1775 Online 2320-7876

Comparative Analysis and Enrichment of the Nutrient Composition of Agricultural Waste by Composting With Earthworm Eudilus Eugineae and Eisenia Fetida

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Rajkumar. G , Gnanamani.R , Alagesan.P

Abstract

India generates about 350 million tonnes of agricultural wastes every year. Vermicomposting is a good and affordable technique used to produce organic compost from organic waste with the aid of specific earthworm species. It is one of the economically and environmentally friendly methods of organic waste processing. It is a newly becoming organic solid waste management strategies. The present research work was carried with the objective exploring the vermicomposting processing. In this experiment, the agriculture waste such as coir wastes, leaf litter, Sugarcane trash and rice husk was processed by two earthworm species, Eudilus eugineae and Eisenia fetida. The macronutrients such as carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and calcium were evaluated in vermicompost and conventional compost and assessed the growth efficiency of plant, Abelmoschus esculentus. The nutrient status and growth efficiency of vermicompost processed by earthworm species produced from agriculture waste were more than conventional compost. Moreover, the vermicompost produced by Eudilus eugineae processed higher nutrients and growth efficiency than that of Eisenia fetida. This study promising that vermicomposting is an ecofriendly method to solve the acute problem of solid waste.

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