National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692 Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
The present study was carried out under cold arid conditions of Kargil district of Ladakh region. The area receives very scanty rainfall and most of the precipitation is witnessed in the form of snow during harsh winter period. The farmers are marginal and resource poor. Chemical fertilizers are not available during the peak growing season because of continuous road closure for at least five months. The only alternative available with the farmers is use of night soil and undecomposed cowdung in the area. But most of the crops in the area are showing nutrient deficiency and disease outbreak. Therefore the available resources were utilized by employing some exotic earthworms viz., Eisenia foetida for speedy conversion into valuable product i.e. vermicompost. The technology was successfully disseminated in the farmers’ field through conduction of on farm and off farm training programmes. Few progressive farmers have started their own vermicompost units at commercial scale.
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