Open AccessLow-cost Large Scale Vermicompost Unit
Author(s) -
Sonam Solanki,
Gunendra Mahore
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/2115/1/012026
Subject(s) - production (economics) , scale (ratio) , unit (ring theory) , investment (military) , process (computing) , automation , task (project management) , computer science , environmental science , agricultural engineering , operations management , engineering , mathematics , systems engineering , geography , economics , mechanical engineering , cartography , politics , political science , law , macroeconomics , operating system , mathematics education
In the current process of producing vermicompost on a large-scale, the main challenge is to keep the worms alive. This is achieved by maintaining temperature and moisture in their living medium. It is a difficult task to maintain these parameters throughout the process. Currently, this is achieved by building infrastructure but this method requires a large initial investment and long-run maintenance. Also, these methods are limited to small-scale production. For large-scale production, a unit is developed which utilises natural airflow with water and automation. The main aim of this unit is to provide favourable conditions to worms in large-scale production with very low investment and minimum maintenance in long term. The key innovation of this research is that the technology used in the unit should be practical and easy to adopt by small farmers. For long-term maintenance of the technology lesser number of parts are used.