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VOL. 5, ISSUE 3 (2020)
Recycling of floral waste of Marigold (Tagetes erecta) into valuable organic fertilizer by using Eisenia foetida
Authors
Subhakant Khandual, Sunita Satapathy
Abstract
The safe and environmentally harmonious management of solid wastes become a major issue in many cities of developing nations. In India, worshiping is the way of living and people offer various offerings to the deities out of which flowers are found in huge quantity. After fulfillment of their purpose, flower along with other waste, find their way in to the garbage or left of on the open places, water bodies was, causing environmental problems. This flower waste can be utilized in different way to produce valuable products to save environment from pollution. Odisha is considered as one of the holy states of India. Jatni city is nearer to the temple city Bhubaneswar. The flower waste is generated from temple and floral shops of Jatni city was assessed for Vermicompost. In this study, floral waste consisted of variety of flowers out of which marigold (Tagetes erecta) was chosen as it was found in maximum amount. In present study different proportion of mixture of soil, cow dung, and floral wastes in 20%. 40%, 60%, 80% and 100% were taken to perform vermicomposting process using Eisenia foetida an earth worm species. The experiment was designed in small scale by taking rectangular containers with different proportion of flower waste with variation of contents ratios. Analysis of various physic-chemical parameters were carried out before and after vermicomposting. Vermicomposting of floral waste is an eco-friendly method to get valuable products which will lead to healthier and waste free environment.
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Pages:141-145
How to cite this article:
Subhakant Khandual, Sunita Satapathy "Recycling of floral waste of Marigold (<em>Tagetes erecta</em>) into valuable organic fertilizer by using <em>Eisenia foetida</em>". International Journal of Botany Studies, Vol 5, Issue 3, 2020, Pages 141-145
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