Wednesday, March 11, 2009

THRUST AREAS OF VERMI CULTURE

Biotechnology is a process in which we produce some things with the help of biological process and specially work with living organisms or in other words we can say that it involves large scale application of bio-systems for economic and efficient bio-processing of material to produce value added bio-products.

Cultivation of a biological material or its propagation in a substrate under semi natural condition is known as culture. Verms, a Greek word stands for any cylindrical elongated limbless animal, which has the general tendency to crawl or burrow. In this context verms/vermi refer to earthworms and vermiculture is propagation of earthworms producing a byproduct called vermicompost and this process of producing vermicompost is called vermicomposting.

Thus vermiculture biotechnology helps in bioconversion of substance from one form to another through a biological process
 
THRUST AREAS

-Soild Waste Management using vermiculture
-Community based environmental moniotoring programmes
-Mass awareness and information dissemination
-Devloping and promoting conceptual products
-Encourage farmers for organic farming practice and supply vermicompost as rich manure.

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