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Earthworm Biotechnology

This document discusses earthworm biotechnology and vermicomposting. It outlines several applications of vermicomposting including gray water treatment, organic farming, soil reclamation, and solid waste management. It then describes the requirements for decentralized waste management options, including political will, waste minimization, household segregation, and regulations. The document explains that composting is the biological burning of biomass without losing nutrients to the air. It describes the process of vermicomposting using earthworms as bioreactors to aerobically decompose organic matter into vermicompost. Finally, it outlines different options for composting including pit, windrow, bin, composter planter, and root zone comp

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Earthworm Biotechnology

This document discusses earthworm biotechnology and vermicomposting. It outlines several applications of vermicomposting including gray water treatment, organic farming, soil reclamation, and solid waste management. It then describes the requirements for decentralized waste management options, including political will, waste minimization, household segregation, and regulations. The document explains that composting is the biological burning of biomass without losing nutrients to the air. It describes the process of vermicomposting using earthworms as bioreactors to aerobically decompose organic matter into vermicompost. Finally, it outlines different options for composting including pit, windrow, bin, composter planter, and root zone comp

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Earthworm Biotechnology

Manjushree Tadvalkar
Institute Of Natural Organic Agriculture
INORA
Pune
inora@vsnl.com
www.inoraindia.com
0202530096
Earthworm Biotechnology
• Vermicomposting
• Gray Water Treatment
• Organic Farming
• Soil reclamation
• Solid waste management
• City /Urban farming
Requirements for decentralized
options
• 1 Political will and policy
• 2 Waste minimization and recycling
• 3 Household segregation
• 4 Collection of animal waste
• 5 Education and training
• 6 Regulations for institutions and companies
• 7 Using the city's produced compost
• 8 Buyback by the city of locally produced
compost
Bio-combustion:Composting
• 1 Composting is biological burning of
biomass without loosing the nitrogen and
phosphorus to air
• 2 composting requires moisture, low
temperatures and proper microbial power
for converting organic matter into compost
Vermicomposting
• commonly called as vermiculture
• 2 In this process earthworms are introduced in the
decomposition web.
• 3 Earthworms act as bioreactors.
• 4They provide aerobicity, semi digested food for
the microbes to act upon.
• 5 Excreta of earthworm- vermi cast and other
organic matter in digested form together is called
vermicompost
Earthworms in vermicomposting
• 1 surface dwellers
• 2 humus formers
• 3 Tolerating high organic matter content
• 4 continuous breeders
• 5 Varieties:Eisenia spp, Eudrilus
spp,Perionyx spp are common varieties
used in vermicomposting
Wormicomposting for waste
treatment: Design considerations
• Quantify waste
• 2 Type of waste
• 3 Waste collection
• 4 Infrastructure
• 1 Processing bin /container - Process area
• 2 Watering arrangement
• Drainage
• 3 Equipments and machinery viz;shredder
• 4 Plantation
• 5 Manpower
Transverse Section Of Vermibed
Options for Composting
• Pit composting: garden and floral refuse
• 2 Windrow composting: dung's manures
and agro refuse
• 3 Bin composting: food waste, faunal refuse
• 4 Composter planter: for garden and food
waste refuse together - City farming
• 5 Root zone composting for cellulosic
garden refuse – Urban forest
Pit Composting
•
Windrow Composting
Bin composting
•
Composter Planter
•
Root Zone Composting
•
Follow Rules..

• MSW Rules 2000


• MOEF: EPA Act
Thank you..
Start
Vermicomposting..
Composting…
Yes in my backyard..

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