Role of Vermicomposting in Agricultural Waste Management

Gupta, Charu; Prakash, Dhan; Gupta, S.K.; Nazareno, Mónica A.

doi:10.1007/978-981-13-2772-8_15

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“…There is an important relationship between the humidity in organic waste and the growth rate of earthworms [48]. Figure 7 shows humidity behavior in the four samples during the vermicomposting process, where it can be appreciated that it remained between 60% and 83.3%, which is within the 50% to 90% range reported by different authors [5,45,[48][49][50]52,56,[58][59][60]. If the humidity is above this range, undesirable anaerobic conditions are favored [5].…”

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Pre-Composting and Vermicomposting of Pineapple (Ananas Comosus) and Vegetable Waste

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In the last few years, pineapple (Ananas comosus) has grown to be considered one of the most important fruits worldwide due to its high production and consumption. However, inadequate disposal of the waste it generates, which represents up to 67% of its total weight, can have environmental impacts. Therefore, this study focuses on the degradation of organic waste produced in the industrialized processing of pineapple waste (rinds, crowns and cores), which undergo a process of vermicomposting at a laboratory level. The methodology used included the pre-composting process and vermicomposting through Californian red worms using mixes tested in three different proportions of pineapple waste (PR) and load material (LM) made up of vegetable waste and eggshells. Testing revealed that the pre-composting process for this waste was feasible as a first stage of the degradation process; the characteristics of the pre-composted material allowed a favorable adaptation for both the worms and general degradation. It also showed efficiencies in the removal of organic carbon between 36.40% and 45.78%. Results also showed the total nitrogen content remained between 1.2% and 2.2% and the carbon/nitrogen relation (C/N) had values under 20 as required for high-quality vermicompost.

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Pre-Composting and Vermicomposting of Pineapple (Ananas Comosus) and Vegetable Waste

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“…These studies focused on different approaches, which confirmed that the most important aspect of the management of agricultural wastes mainly depends on the nature of agricultural wastes (Khan and Faisal 2020). The agri-wastes could be managed byvermicomposting (Gupta et al 2019;Rini et al 2020), biomethanation (Dar et al 2021), implications for the circular economy (Woodard 2021), using tool of life cycle assessment (Ahamed et al 2021), and the effective transformation (Prasad et al 2020). It is worth to mention that all countries are in a need for a proper management of agri-wastes for the sustainable agriculture (Khan and Faisal, 2020) and the management process of any waste and its choosing should depend on its being minimizing environmental impact and maximum safety (Prasad et al 2020).…”

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“…Agricultural wastes may include any residues resulted from agricultural activities, which need proper management (i.e., how and why should re-utilizeor recycle for otherpurposes). These agri-wastes also may include the wastes of food processing as by-products of various food industries (Gupta et al 2019). The management of agri-wastes was and still a hot topic, which several researchers handled from different sides with main concern how convert these wastes in a healthy manner into valuable produces and at the same time minimize the ecological risks of these wastes (Maji et al 2020).…”

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Agricultural Waste and its Nano-Management: Mini Review

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A GRICULTURAL wastes are considered residues resulted during the agricultural production and after harvesting fruit and vegetable and their processing, agro-industrial by/co-products from the grapes, banana, olives and milk processing. These wastes may represent a treasure when they are turning into valuable applications (i.e., composts, biochar, adsorbents for removing pollutants from the environment and organic fertilizers) instead of burning it in open fields causing several environmental problems such as soil degradation and air pollution. The landfill disposal and open dumping of agro-wastes is a common practice in the developing countries generating huge amounts of ash, which may create serious health and environmental problems, primarily due to pollution of groundwater. Under the umbrella of the green bioeconomy and based on industrial innovation and high technology, new and better approaches for the recovery of agricultural wastes have been developed. This has contributed to guaranteeing sustainable production and its consumption, resource utilizing efficiency, the conversation of these wastes into valuable products and the reduction of negative environmental impacts.The common management of Agro-wastes may include a lot of suggested uses such as the production of biosynthesis of nanoparticles, biotechnological products, composting and biofuel production. Furthermore, a lot of bioactive compounds could be produced from the agrowastes, which have many application possibilities such as functional food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic approaches. The nano-management of agro-wastes may include using nanotechnology to convert the agro-wastes into a valuable product. This topic still has several open questions, particularly under sustainable and green bioeconomy prespective.

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“…Vermicomposting (VC) involves the biodegradation of organic matter by worms to maintain the flow of nutrients from one system to another [ 193 ]. There are several studies on the use of vermicomposting to produce organic fertilizers ( Table 10 ).…”

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Recovery of Banana Waste-Loss from Production and Processing: A Contribution to a Circular Economy

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Banana is a fruit grown mainly in tropical countries of the world. After harvest, almost 60% of banana biomass is left as waste. Worldwide, about 114.08 million metric tons of banana waste-loss are produced, leading to environmental problems such as the excessive emission of greenhouse gases. These wastes contain a high content of paramount industrial importance, such as cellulose, hemicellulose and natural fibers that various processes can modify, such as bacterial fermentation and anaerobic degradation, to obtain bioplastics, organic fertilizers and biofuels such as ethanol, biogas, hydrogen and biodiesel. In addition, they can be used in wastewater treatment methods by producing low-cost biofilters and obtaining activated carbon from rachis and banana peel. Furthermore, nanometric fibers commonly used in nanotechnology applications and silver nanoparticles useful in therapeutic cancer treatments, can be produced from banana pseudostems. The review aims to demonstrate the contribution of the recovery of banana production waste-loss towards a circular economy that would boost the economy of Latin America and many other countries of emerging economies.

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Role of Vermicomposting in Agricultural Waste Management

Cited by 26 publications

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Pre-Composting and Vermicomposting of Pineapple (Ananas Comosus) and Vegetable Waste

Pre-Composting and Vermicomposting of Pineapple (Ananas Comosus) and Vegetable Waste

Agricultural Waste and its Nano-Management: Mini Review

Recovery of Banana Waste-Loss from Production and Processing: A Contribution to a Circular Economy

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