Vermicomposting: A Practice Towards Sustainable Farming

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  • Saurav Barman, Sunita Satapathy, G. Prameela, Nilanjana Dutta

Abstract

Vermicompost is an important organic nutrient source for the plants as well as for soil conditioning. Vermicompost is a organic nutrient product forms due to the activity of Earthworm on feeding the kitchen, farm and Livestock residue. It has been noticed that when vermicompost applied to soil, helps in maintaining the good physico-chemical and biological characteristics of soil. Its nutrients supplying capacity fairly more than that of other composts and Farm Yard Manure, not only it supplies major nutrients but it also carries macro and micro nutrients, beneficial micro-organisms and growth regulators. Therefore, keeping in view, reviewing the good package of practice on vermicompost production technology over the years..

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2020-09-30

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Saurav Barman, Sunita Satapathy, G. Prameela, Nilanjana Dutta. (2020). Vermicomposting: A Practice Towards Sustainable Farming. International Journal of Modern Agriculture, 9(3), 1037 - 1044. Retrieved from http://modern-journals.com/index.php/ijma/article/view/308

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