“Vermiculture Movement” is going on in India with
multiple objectives of community waste management,
highly economical way of crop production, which replaces
the costly chemical fertilizers, and poverty eradication
programs in villages. Vermicomposting to a nonprofessional
simply means making of compost by worms
by utilizing worm’s innate behavior. Vermicomposting
process improves soil aeration and thereby promotes the
survival and dispersal of the useful bacterium within
such systems, which is slowly becoming clear day by day.
Vermicomposts could be prepared from the kitchen waste,
farm waste, market waste, even from biodegradable city
waste. The most effective uses of earthworms are organic
waste management and supplement of readily available
plant nutrients and vermicompost demands the credit as
it maintains as well as improves soil health.
The chemical fertilizers are produced from “vanishing
resources” of earth. Farmers urgently need a sustainable
alternative, which is both economical and productive
while also maintaining soil health & fertility. The new
concept is “Ecological Agriculture”, which is by definition
different from “Organic Farming” that was focused
mainly on production of chemical free foods. Ecological
agriculture emphasizes on total protection of food, farm
& human ecosystems while improving soil fertility &
development of secondary source of income for the
farmers. UN has also endorsed it. Vermiculture provides
the best answer for ecological agriculture, which is synonymous
with “sustainable agriculture”. Thereby it may
be concluded that during the present time the most bene