Practice Name:

Innovative Vermi-Compost Technique

Details
Category	Agriculture,Farm Practice,Innovation,Individual
Crop	ANY CROP
Crop Family
Scientific Name
Vernacular Name
Scout	HBN
Ingredients	Trough, organic wastes.
Details of Innovation	Mrs. Anthoniammal is using vermi compost trough of the size 6x3x1.75 ft. She constructed 13 throughs in this manner. She puts organic waste (partially composed) in the trough. Worms are released into it, and the vermi compost gets ready in 4 week's time. In the upper area of trough, she places bricks over the organic waste at equal intervals. This helps the worms to come above the bricks and drop their castings. This technique helps the labourers for easy removal of earthworms without any harm or damage to the earthworms. By seeing this method, more than 300 farmers have been following this simple innovation and they have benefited in larger ways. In the earlier days she has been selling her compost to the farmers by door delivery on house basis. Slowly she increased her production capacity to 8 quintals per month. Now she asked her son to do selling the compost. It picked up. His son takes this compost and as well as organically grown vegetables to the farmers market (Ulavar Sandhai) Now a days, the capacity is 3 tonnes per month. She is selling Rs.10 per kg of compost. She is also using this for her own field to grow organically all the crops. Dissemination of Organic Farming She is one of the active women and having leadership qualities, which facilitated her to disseminate organic farming methods to others farmers in nearby villages. Now she is charging Rs.150-500 from outsiders to give training on organic compost development. Now she is planning to sell all vegetables and agricultural produce (organically grown in her own field) directly to consumers in the farmers market (Ulavar Sandhai).

Innovator / Knowledge Provider	Anthoniammal
City / District	Tiruchchirappalli
KVK District	Horticultural College and Research Institute, Periyakulam – 625 604, Tamil Nadu
Address	Tiruchchirappalli ,Tamil Nadu
Languages Spoken	Tamil
Vocation	Farming
State	Tamil Nadu
PIN Code	621216

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	Horticultural College and Research Institute, Periyakulam – 625 604, Tamil Nadu,Horticultural College and Research Institute, Periyakulam – 625 604, Tamil Nadu,Horticultural College and Research Institute, Periyakulam – 625 604, Tamil Nadu
Other Community Practices
Practice ID	TAM0010000000248
Reference	HBN database
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/1184
Reference	HBN database
Scout	HBN