Our Composting Methods

Introduction

vermicompost is method of preparing enriched compost with the use of earthworms. It is one of the easiest method to recycle agricultural waste and to produce quality compost. Earthworm consume biomass and excrete it in digested form called worm casts. Worm casts are popularly known as black gold.The caste are rich in nutrients, growth promoting substances, beneficial soil micro flora and having properties of inhibiting pathogenic microbes.

Compost preparing steps

step - 1

Processing involving collection of wastes, shredding, mechanical separation of the metal, glass and ceramics and storage of organic wastes.

Pre digestion of organic waste for twenty days by heaping the material along with cattle dung slurry. This process partially digests the material and fit for earthworm consumption. Cattle dung and biogas slurry may be used after drying. Wet dung should not be used for vermicompost production.

step - 2

The second step of preparing of vermicopost is preparation of earthworm bed. A hard base is required to put the waste for vermicompost preparation. Loose soil will allow the worms to go into soil and also while watering, all the dissolvable nutrients go into the soil along with water.

We put the cow dung inside these beds to dry it so that the methane can be eliminated from inside the cow dung. and it's moisture can also be eliminated which can be harmful for the worms.

This process of compltely drying the cattel dung takes upto 10 - 15 days.

step - 3

After drying the cattel dung we choose the best earthworms and leave these worms in the vermibeds for the digestion.

Typical earthworms that you find in your garden are not suitable for vermicomposting. There are several species of vermicomposting worms but the most common are Eisenia fetida and E. andrei. Red wigglers are hermaphrodites having both male and female reproductive parts

step - 4

After leaving the earthworm, the final step of our compost preparation is to keep the manure lying on the bed. Earthworm likes to stay in the dark, so purali is kept on the vermibed to darken it.

Earthworms do not like to be in heat, because of this, sufficient amount of water has to be poured on the vermibed so that the moisture remains.

This process has to be done for a full 90 - 120 days, after which the earthworms are shifted to another vermibed by putting the waste material into it and the rest of the manure is filtered and then packaged.