Farm yard manure utilisation

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Veterinary hospital Kohima


Farm yard manure consists of cow dung, urine and crop residue like straw, hay and fodder grass. Proper utilisation of various farm yard manure helps to promote and improve the fertility of the soil; prevent soil erosion and soil pollution. With the changing scenario from traditional to scientific livestock farming recycling of farm waste like cow dung, urine and waste crop residue can be converted into organic manure, biogas and organic spray.


The cow dung and crop residue plays a relatively important role for enriching soil fertility and thereby enhances crop production. The cow urine can be used as liquid manure to cultivate cereals and vegetables. Water from washing of cattle shed can be channelled into a pit which serves as manure and can be used for manure for fodder crop.


The recycling of farm waste products helps to maintain the soil fertility and over the years it has gain immerse importance where farm waste product are converted to vermin compost  manure. Vermicomposting is a method of composting where earth worm eat the decomposed farm waste products and excrete it out as casting which is known as vemicast or vermicompost.


During feeding earthworm use only 5-10% of the food intake for their growth and the rest is excreted out as casting. Huge quantities of organic waste can be converted into valuable products through vermicomposting.

 

Vermicompost has many beneficial applications to our livestock farmers such as:-
1.    Helps multiplication of microbes and control soil acidity.
2.    Easily absorb by field crop and vegetables due to small particle size.
3.    Contains almost all essential nutrients and hormones for plant vegetable growth.
4.    Improves water holding capacity of soil.
5.    Due to healthy growth of field crop and vegetables it can resist much microbial and insect attack.
6.    Crop and vegetables grown on vermicompost manure has better taste, colour and high nutritive value, so the market demand is more and does fetch higher prices.