An Experimental Study on Accelerating the Vermicomposting Process by Stocking Vegetable Market Waste

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this observational work is to produce an innovative engineered technique in vegetable market waste management.Even though many treatment methods were currently adopted in treating the organic green waste (composting, land fill, vermicomposting etc.,) but vermicomposting is highly commended, since it converts the green waste into enriched nutrient manure with less operational cost.The trouble with the vermicomposting process is, it consumes more time.And very particular, when it comes to vermicomposting, the waste should be pre-composted for two weeks (depends on the nature of waste) before they fed to worms to avoid the impact load on worms (Ndegwa and Thompson, 1999).This work focuses on getting rid of the pre-composting process in vermicomposting, by carrying the green waste and feed the stocked waste to vermi at the needed time.This will shorten the time expelled in the process and high percent of intensity reduction of waste will be attained.  The findings from the current study show the high feasibility of using the modified vermicomposting process because of the following reasons; (i) high volume reduction of waste in short duration. (ii) The stocked waste can be utilized at any time for vermicomposting (iii) 40%-time difference was recorded in the modified vermicomposting process than the formal one.

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