Vermicomposting of chicken or quail manure with water hyacinth into valuable bio-fertiliser with earthworms.

• Main Author: Tan, Cassandra Lang Yee.
• Other Authors: Tan Swee Ngin
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/50673
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Significant amounts of organic waste are produced annually by poultry farms in Singapore and its disposal could be tackled by vermicomposting, a process that generates valuable bio-fertillisers. The present study reports on the use of earthworms, Eisenia fetida and Perionyx Excavatus, to convert chi...