African Journal of Environmental and Waste Management

African Journal of Environmental and Waste Management ISSN 2329-9843 Vol. 3 (6), pp. 187-189, September, 2015. © International Scholars Journals

Full Length Research Paper

Vermitechnology: A new dimension to raise a nation’s GDP and scientific management of vegetable waste

Sajaad Iqbal Khan and R.K.Rampal

Environmental Sciences, University of Jammu, Jammu (J&K).

Corresponding author E-mail: [email protected]

Accepted 09 September, 2015

Abstract

The present world confronts with unwelcoming environmental complications generated by large scale production of solid waste. India is the fastest growing nation after china so as any developing nation India is also facing the problem of scientific management of Organic waste, as reflected from the data published by Indian council of agricultural research that during year 2014 vegetable production in India was 162.19 million tons (http://icar.org.in/).  Out of which 30% of total production get wasted due to inadequate infrastructure. Approximately 48 million tons of vegetables become wasted every year in India. So as to deal with this problem the bioconversion of vegetable waste were carried out in controlled, conditioned by using four local earthworm species. Out of these earthworm species used for vermicomposting the Lampito mauritii was reported to be highly efficient for the production of vermicompost (78.3%) as well as an increase in earthworm biomass of 49.3% on vegetable, moreover GDP can be increased by approximately four hundred crores rupees ($62947520) by converting just one million tons of vegetable waste. The present study was conducted to calculate the vermitechnological potential of earthworm species of Jammu on vegetable waste and also help in economic value add to the Nation’s GDP.

Key words: Earthworms, GDP, potential, vermicomposting, vermiculture, and vegetable waste.