Recycling of cattle dung, biogas plant-effluent and water hyacinth in vermiculture

✍ Scribed by P.R. Balasubramanian; R. Kasturi Bai

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 278 KB
• Volume: 52
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0960-8524
• DOI: 10.1016/0960-8524(94)00114-g

✦ Synopsis

The efficiency of recycling cattle dung, anaerobically digested cattle dung (biogas plant-effluent) and water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) by culture of the earthworm Megascolex sp. was studied. The growth of the earthworms was increased by 156, 148 and 119% in soil supplemented with water hyacinth, cattle dung and biogas plant-effluent, respectively. The growth rate of the earthworms was increased significantly by raw cattle dung and water hyacinth over that by biodigested slurry.