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⮚ Are you familiar with the term vermicomposting?

⮚ Do you have any organic waste accumulating from your farming activities?
⮚ How do you deal with the organic waste from you farm?

⮚ Do you think that farmers can produce vermicompost very shortly by themselves

through utilization of that waste?
⮚ Have you ever seen or experienced some vermicomposting techniques?

⮚ Are you familiar with the advantages of vermicomposting?

⮚ Are you familiar with the production cost of vermicomposting?

⮚ Are you familiar with the composition of vermicompost?

⮚ Do you think that vermicompost can help barren land turned into fertile?
⮚ What barriers, if any, do you face in the process of practicing vermicomposting?

⮚ Can you think of some ecological advantages that vermicomposting has over the

environment?

⮚ Read the following statements to the respondents and ask them if they agree with them
on not:

⮚ Introducing earthworms into soil from vermicomposting is one of the most natural,

ancient and perhaps the best among all sustainable agriculture practice.

⮚ Vermicomposting means less reliance on purchased inputs leading to low cost of
production

⮚ Enhancement of soil productivity.

⮚ With vermicompost the produce will be with better taste, luster and keeping qualities
without toxic residues

⮚ Vermicompost is rich in nutrients content and this may be good asset for sustainable

agriculture.
⮚ Wastes become valuable raw material for the soil biotechnological processes.

⮚ More ground water recharge and less groundwater depletion.

⮚ Soil salinization is reduced with low soil erosion and runoff.

⮚ Vermicomposting can boost up rural economy.

⮚ Reduced wasteland formation.

Respondent’s experience with vermicomposting.

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