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Vermiculture is the process of using worms to decompose organic food waste, turning the waste into a nutrient-rich material capable of supplying necessary nutrients to help sustain plant growth.


This method is simple, effective, convenient, and noiseless. It saves water, energy, landfills, and helps rebuild the soil. The worm’s ability to convert organic waste into nutrient-rich material reduces the need for synthetic fertilizers.


Through the simple act of eating, earthworms promote bacterial growth, enhance soil structure and hasten the decomposition of organic matter. However, due to different feeding habits, not all earthworms are suitable for vermiculture.
The concept of vermiculture made its beginning in the 50s of this century when the facilities were set up in the industrialized countries of Western Europe for the mass breeding of earthworms.


Subsequently, researchers in the USA, Italy, France and Israel did painstaking work to perfect the vermiculture technology for an efficient waste disposal. The key role of earthworms in improving soil fertility is well known since long Darwin, 1881; Chandana, 1981; Kale and Krishnamoorthy, 1981.


Earthworms are divided into two groups: humus formers and humus feeders. The first group dwell on the surface and feed on nearly 90% fresh organic materials and 10% soil. They are generally red in color, have a flat tail and are also called epegic or detritivorous worms.


It is these worms that are harnessed for vermicomposting. The second group, the humus feeders, are deep burrowing worms that are useful in making the soil porous and mixing and distributing humus through the soil.


Earthworms feed on any organic waste, consume two to five times their body weight and after using 5-10% of the feedstock for their growth, excrete the mucus coated undigested matter as wormcasts.


Wormcasts consist of organic matter that has undergone physical and chemical breakdown through the activity of the muscular gizzard which grinds the material to a particle size of 1-2 micron. The nutrients present in the wormcast are readily soluble in water for the uptake of plants.
 

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Vermiculture is the process of using worms to decompose organic food waste, turning the waste into a nutrient-rich material capable of supplying necessary nutrients to help sustain plant growth.


This method is simple, effective, convenient, and noiseless. It saves water, energy, landfills, and helps rebuild the soil. The worm’s ability to convert organic waste into nutrient-rich material reduces the need for synthetic fertilizers.


Through the simple act of eating, earthworms promote bacterial growth, enhance soil structure and hasten the decomposition of organic matter. However, due to different feeding habits, not all earthworms are suitable for vermiculture.
The concept of vermiculture made its beginning in the 50s of this century when the facilities were set up in the industrialized countries of Western Europe for the mass breeding of earthworms.


Subsequently, researchers in the USA, Italy, France and Israel did painstaking work to perfect the vermiculture technology for an efficient waste disposal. The key role of earthworms in improving soil fertility is well known since long Darwin, 1881; Chandana, 1981; Kale and Krishnamoorthy, 1981.


Earthworms are divided into two groups: humus formers and humus feeders. The first group dwell on the surface and feed on nearly 90% fresh organic materials and 10% soil. They are generally red in color, have a flat tail and are also called epegic or detritivorous worms.


It is these worms that are harnessed for vermicomposting. The second group, the humus feeders, are deep burrowing worms that are useful in making the soil porous and mixing and distributing humus through the soil.


Earthworms feed on any organic waste, consume two to five times their body weight and after using 5-10% of the feedstock for their growth, excrete the mucus coated undigested matter as wormcasts.


Wormcasts consist of organic matter that has undergone physical and chemical breakdown through the activity of the muscular gizzard which grinds the material to a particle size of 1-2 micron. The nutrients present in the wormcast are readily soluble in water for the uptake of plants.

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