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Agricultural Reviews
Year : 2012, Volume : 33, Issue : 3
First page : ( 265) Last page : ( 270)
Print ISSN : 0253-1496. Online ISSN : 0976-0741.

Vermicompost on crop production -A review

Vennila C., Jayanthi C.1, Sankaran V.M.

Department of Agronomy, Madras Veterinary College, Chennai -600 007, India

1Department of Agronomy, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore -3

Online published on 26 October, 2012.

Abstract

On one hand tropical soils are deficient in all necessary plant nutrients and on the other hand large quantities of such nutrients contained in domestic wastes and agricultural byproducts are wasted. In nature, there are a number of organisms that have the ability to convert organic waste into valuable resources. This helps to maintain nutrient flow and minimize environmental degradation. One such organism is earthworms, which could be able to recycle the organic wastes into valuable manure i.e. vermicompost. The vermicompost has several advantages when used in agriculture. The literatureing reveal the beneficial effect of vermicompost on crop production, nutrient uptake and maintenance of soil quality has been reviewed in this paper.

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Keywords

Vermicompost, Vermiculture, Crop production, Nutrient uptake.

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