The mean microbial count revealed decreasing trend for coliform
count, total aerobic plate count as well as fungal count in the
biofertilizer digestate as against their higher values in the feedstock.
This agrees with Shu-Hsien et al. [33] that microbial population
has a tendency to decrease suddenly from day 1e7 due to the
acidic environment and then remains steady during the biofertilizer
preparation.