Vermiculture as renewable source of animal protein from organic waste
Today the global scientific community searches for a technology which should be economically viable, ecologically sustainable and socially acceptable. Vermiculture technology combines all these virtues and qualities together. One of the major directions of vermitechnology is cultivation of earthworm's biomass and use of this renewable bioresource for production of high-quality fodder premixes for poultry, dairy and fishery industries. In the review the basic methods of nutritive feed materials (vermimeal) production from earthworm's biomass and results of their application as fodder premixes are described.Vermicomposting of organic wastes is necessary to be used to solve some ecological, economic and social problems. Organic wastes recycling at the place of their formation will provide decreasing the load that is put on landfill sites and refuse dumps and will allow to get valuable organic wastes, the usage of which will favour the return of food elements extracted from the soil together with agricultural crops in order to maintain and restore its fertility, as well as fodder animal protein. This technology is to become an instrument with the help of which it will be possible to clean water, soil and air from organic pollution.
Keywords
vermiculture,
organic wastes recycling,
fodder premixes,
кормовые премиксы,
рециклинг органических отходов,
вермикультураAuthors
| Titov Igor N. | Vladimir State University | tit42l@mail.ru |
| Usoev Vladimir M. | Vladimir State University | v.usoev@yandex.ru |
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