Practice Name:

Method of Preparation of Vermicompost

Details
Category	Agriculture
Crop	ANY CROP
Crop Family
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Scout	HBN
Ingredients	Cow dung / sugarcane trashes, leaf litter, molasses. 10ft length, 5 ft breadth, 2.5 ft depth size cement tank . Sieve .1500 -2000 numbers of earth worm shed - 15ft length , 6 ft breadth . 7 ft height
Details of Innovation	Cow dung / sugar cane trashes, molasses and leaf litter are allowed to decompose for 2 months. Then earthworms are filled in the tank. In this cow dung, slurry is sprayed in two layers. After that, filling of bricks is done with the size of height 9" length and 3" breadth to a height of 2 .1/4 ft . The bricks are placed in 2" gap. After 1 week till the heat is reduced, water should be sprinkled. 1500 - 2000 numbers of earthworms are allowed in this tank. Daily in the morning and evening, water is sprayed. On the 60th day, granules like vermicompost will be obtained. So from one harvest we can get 600 kg of vermicompost.

Innovator / Knowledge Provider	Gopala Krishnan M.
City / District	Karur
KVK District	Saraswathi KVK, Puzhuderi Village, Puzhuderi (Po), Thogamalai block, Karur District
Address	Karur ,Tamil Nadu
Languages Spoken	Tamil
Vocation	Farming
State	Tamil Nadu
PIN Code	639107

PAS_1	"Method of Composting and Preparation of Vermicompost ."https://agri-horti.assam.gov.in/sites/default/files/swf_utility_folder/departments/diragri_medhassu_in_oid_4/portlet/level_2/11%28B%29.10.pdf
PAS_2	"Vermicompost."https://agritech.tnau.ac.in/org_farm/orgfarm_vermicompost.html
Agro Ecological Zone	Eastern Ghat (TN uplands) ecosubregion (8.3).,Eastern Ghat (TN uplands) ecosubregion (8.3),Western zone (TN-3),Periyar and Coimbatore districts, Thiruchengodu of Namakkal district Karur district and northern parts of Madurai district.
Other Community Practices
Practice ID	TAM0010000000240
Reference	HBN database
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/1182
Reference	HBN database
Scout	HBN