Optimizing Carbon to Nitrogen Ratio with Coconut Coir Pith and Farm Yard Manure for Bioconversion of Broiler Poultry Litter to Vermicompost Using Eudrilus eugeniae

Saravanan Narayanan Ramanathan; Anandha Prakash Singh Dharmalingam; Prabhu Murugan; Bharathy Nallathambi; Sakthivadivu Rathinasamy; Thirunavukkarasu Maruthamuthu; Duraisamy Kannan; Sri Balaji Nagarajan; Vidya De Gannes; Thiruvenkadan Aranganoor Kannan; Sivakumar Karuppusamy

doi:10.20944/preprints202411.0176.v1

How to cite: Narayanan Ramanathan, S.; Dharmalingam, A. P. S.; Murugan, P.; Nallathambi, B.; Rathinasamy, S.; Maruthamuthu, T.; Kannan, D.; Nagarajan, S. B.; De Gannes, V.; Aranganoor Kannan, T.; Karuppusamy, S. Optimizing Carbon to Nitrogen Ratio with Coconut Coir Pith and Farm Yard Manure for Bioconversion of Broiler Poultry Litter to Vermicompost Using Eudrilus eugeniae. Preprints 2024, 2024110176. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202411.0176.v1 Narayanan Ramanathan, S.; Dharmalingam, A. P. S.; Murugan, P.; Nallathambi, B.; Rathinasamy, S.; Maruthamuthu, T.; Kannan, D.; Nagarajan, S. B.; De Gannes, V.; Aranganoor Kannan, T.; Karuppusamy, S. Optimizing Carbon to Nitrogen Ratio with Coconut Coir Pith and Farm Yard Manure for Bioconversion of Broiler Poultry Litter to Vermicompost Using Eudrilus eugeniae. Preprints 2024, 2024110176. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202411.0176.v1

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The potential benefits of bioconversion of commercial broiler poultry litter (PL) to vermicompost (with Eudrilus eugeniae) were studied by optimizing the carbon-nitrogen ratio (C/N) using coconut (Cocos nucifera) coir pith (CP) and farm yard manure (FM) as co-substrate. In this experiment, after optimizing the C/N at the levels of 25, 30, and 35, the pre-composting of the PL followed by vermicomposting was done, and the PL and FM alone were used as the control group. After pre-composting, the earthworms (Eudrilus eugeniae) were introduced, and the vermicomposting process was continued for 90 days and the vermicompost samples were analyzed on the 45th and 90th days. The study revealed a significantly (P

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Optimizing Carbon to Nitrogen Ratio with Coconut Coir Pith and Farm Yard Manure for Bioconversion of Broiler Poultry Litter to Vermicompost Using Eudrilus eugeniae

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