Vermicomposting: A sustainable and environment-friendly approach for organic waste management
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2023
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Apple Academic Press
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Variations in intensive agricultural management practices, lifestyle, urbanization, and population increase have recently enhanced the synthesis of organic wastes in ecosystem. These organic wastes have a detrimentally negative impact on the ecosystem. The essential nutrients attained from organic wastes, for instance, agriculture, kitchen, and municipal wastes are pivotal part of their management and for reducing declination of the ecosystem. Innovative vermicomposting technology is an encouraging tool for recycling of organic wastes and is an environmentally sustainable technology, ethically acknowledgeable, and financially accessible around the world. Earthworms' species like Eisenia fetida are associated with the synthesis of vermicompost and organic waste recycling technologies. Vermicompost is a procedure to which earthworms are used to transform different plants and animals waste into organic fertilizer for agricultural use. Vermicompost is nutritionally rich with essential amount of both minor and major nutrients such as Zn, Mn, Mg, Ca, B, N, K, P, etc., beneficiary soil-dwelling microbes including (phosphate-solubilizing and nitrogen-fixing bacteria) and growth-regulating hormones, namely, cytokinins, gibberellins and accordingly can be utilized as organic fertilizers for appropriate plant growth. The utilization of vermicompost as an organic fertilizer has completely abandoned the recommendation of chemical fertilizers. Therefore, vermicompost technology is considered as an innovative tool like two birds can be killed by one stone as suitable management of organic waste and at the same time creation of organic fertilizer. The management of waste is undertaken to recycle the organic wastes to diminish the ill effects of wastes on health, environment, and aesthetics. Vermicomposting is verified viable technique aimed at renovating diverse biological waste to valuable bio-fertilizer. The sustainability of agriculture significantly depends on the application of vermicompost. © 2023 by Apple Academic Press, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Eisenia fetida, Municipal solid organic waste, Nutrients, Organic fertilizer, Vermicomposting
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Waste Problems and Management in Developing Countries
