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Vermicompost
About: Vermicompost is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 3840 publications have been published within this topic receiving 48520 citations. The topic is also known as: vermi-compost & vermiculture.
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TL;DR: The incorporation of both types of vermicompost-derived humic acids, into either type of soilless plant growth media, increased the growth of tomato and cucumber plants significantly, in terms of plant heights, leaf areas, shoot and root dry weights.
777 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the feasibility of composting and vermicomposting as a means to recover nutrients from the organic waste and returning them to the environment and discuss the environmental impact and economic potential of these processes.
434 citations
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TL;DR: This experiment was designed to characterize the physical, chemical and microbial properties of a standard commercial horticultural, greenhouse container, bedding plant medium that had been substituted with a range of increasing concentrations of pig manure vermicompost and to relate these properties to plant growth responses.
415 citations
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TL;DR: Responses seemed not to be dose-dependent, since strawberries at one site grew fastest and yielded most in response to the 10 tha(-1) vermicompost application rate, whereas they responded positively and similarly to both the 5 and 10 tha-1 rates of applications at the other site.
396 citations
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TL;DR: The data reveals that vermicomposting (using E. foetida) is a suitable technology for the decomposition of different types of organic wastes (domestic as well as industrial) into value-added material.
385 citations