AEROBIC DIGESTION OF VEGETABLE AND FRUIT WASTES FOR BIOFERTILIZER PRODUCTION AND ITS IMAPACT ON THE VEGETATIVE DEVELOPMENTAND FRUIT YIELD OF OKRA
S. Swadhini* and Dr. P. Gowsalya*
ABSTRACT
Vegetables play an important role in human diet. They are vital sources of essential minerals, vitamins and dietary
fiber. Vegetable waste make an extraordinary measure of contamination which contain high part of natural matter
that causes genuine ecological and wellbeing issues. Vegetable wastes are produced in large quantities in the
markets across the world. The collection, transportation and disposal of these wastes is a big problem. To make
use of this waste and to reduce the pollution they can be used to produce Biofertilizers. Biofertilizer is commonly
referred as the fertilizer that contains living micro-organisms and it is expected that their activities will influence
the soil ecosystem and produce supplementary substance for the plants. Organic biofertilizers are developed from
the composted waste materials to supply essential nutrients to plants. The collected vegetables wastes were
subjected to decomposition (1month) for producing solid biofertilizer. Since Biofertilizers are one of the best tool
that is used in the agricultural field, it is applied as a replacement of conventional fertilizers. The extensive use of
chemical fertilizers and pesticides caused number of deaths and illness. Hence the main objective of this study is
to build a platform that Biofertilizers obtained from vegetable waste are better than the conventional fertilizers.
Keywords: Vegetables, Vegetable wastes, Organic biofertilizer, Conventional fertilizer.
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