Materials required for vermicomposting Biologically degradable organic wastes are used as potential organic resources for vermicomposting.
They are:
- Agricultural wastes (crop residue, vegetable waste, sugarcane trash)
- Crop residues (rice straw, tea wastes, cereal and pulse residues, rice husk, tobacco wastes, coir wastes)
- Leaf litter
- Fruit and vegetable wastes
- Animal wastes (cattle dung, poultry droppings, pig slurry, goat and sheep droppings)
- Bio gas slurry
