Vol. 12, Issue 3 (2023)

Author(s):
Alpana Kusum, Shankar Jha and Koshlendra Tedia

Abstract:
An experiment was conducted during the year 2021 and 2022 at Vermicompost Production Unit, RPCAU, Pusa with an objective to find out the effect of four different food materials i.e., temple waste, food waste, household waste and agricultural waste in combinations with cow dung (65:35) and cow dung alone as fifth one in presence and absence of the epigeic earthworm Eisenia fetida on the changes in physical properties of compostduring various stages of composting. The experiment was conducted in Completely Randomized design (factorial) replicated thrice. Results indicated that physical properties improved over the course of the composting process for all the treatment combination, and the vermicompost consistently recorded better properties than regular compost irrespective of the substrates used.