The development of pepper shrub requires an additional fertilizer, hence the plants were classified as nutrient voracious. This study aimed to describe changes in vermicompost on soil N, C-organic and shrubs growth a floating system. utilize Randomized Block Design Factorial, with 5 levels treatment, V0 (0 g/plant), V1 (250 V2 (500 V3 (750 V4 (1000 g/plant). results indicate that Vermicompost t...

BACKGROUND: Organic farming has emerged as important priority area globally in view of growing demand for safe and healthy food and long term sustainability and concerns on environmental pollution associated with indiscriminate use of agrochemicals. Nano fertilizers can be easily absorbed by crops and may exhibit a prolonged effective duration of nutrient supply in soil/crop co...

iron deficiency or lime induced chlorosis is a common problem in calcareous soils. application of mineral iron fertilizer in these soils is not usually fully effective in curing iron deficiency as compared to organic chelates. cow manure and iron refuse (oxides), a by-product of iron melting factories were mixed in different properties of: 0, 5, 10, and 20 % v/v to make mixtures which of after ...

in order to investigation of vermicompost effect on growth and yield of marigold in pot medium, an experiment was done by a randomized completely block design in three raplications. treatmnets were included control (30% v/v of soil plus 70% v/v of sand) and three levels of vermicompost (20, 40, 60 % v/v of vermicompost+30% v/v of sand and soil) that applied in three lit. pots. marigold seeds (t...

two separate experiments were carried out with the aim of investigating the effect of vermicompost and its aqueous extracts on traits related to germination and growth of tomato varieties, (mobil and superorbina). in the first experiment, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 5, 7.5, 10 and 100% extracts of vermicompost (v - v) along with control (distilled water) were studied on germination of two varieties of...

Earthworms feed readily upon sludge components, rapidly converting them into vermicompost, reduce the pathogens to safe levels and ingest the heavy metals. Volume is significantly reduced from 1 m³ of wet sludge (80% moisture) to 0.5 m³ of vermicompost (30% moisture). Earthworms have real potential both to increase the rate of aerobic decomposition and composting of organic matter and also to s...

A potential antagonist, designated strain Bacillus subtilis MBCU5 was previously isolated from vermicompost-amended soils of Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. Crude allelochemicals from strain MBCU5 displayed strong antifungal activity against Macrophomina phaseolina as well as Rhizoctonia solani. These crude allelochemicals were tentatively identified as iturin, fengycin and surfactin through TLC a...

The negative effects of synthetic agrochemicals have created strong incentives for the search organic-based substitutes. One current alternative to use fertilizers is vermicompost tea. In this study we investigate how tea enhances pest resistance in crop plants. Four-hundred and thirty tomato plants were treated weekly with mixtures ranging from 1:20 (5%), 1:10 (10%) 1:5 (20%) water (v/v). Phys...