Influence of Microorganisms in the conversion of Cocoa shell and Jack fruit peel waste as Biocompost
M. Silpa1*, A. Vijayalakshmi2 and Pinky Raihing3
1,2&3Department of Botany, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore 641043 (India) E-mail: silpasvp@gmail.com, Ph-9048471520
ABSTRACT
Different microorganism plays an important role in the bioconversion of agro-industrial waste. Biocompostedagroindustrial waste contains more micro and macronutrients than other wastes producing healthy food crops and livestock without damaging the environment. Cocoa shell and Jack fruit peel waste was generally considered as agro-industrial waste have almost no economic value. Improper disposal of this waste also creates problems to the environment. These wastes do not degrade quickly due to large amounts of chemical constituents like lignin, cellulose, hemicellulose, pectin and calcium. The present study was aimed to analyse the changes in microbial population at regular intervals of biocomposting units 0-30, 30-60 and 60-90 days. The eight kinds of biocomposting units were prepared by combining different microorganisms like Pleurotus eous, Pleurotus florida and earthworm species Eudrilus eugeniae. The biocomposting units are named as C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, C6, C7 and C8. This investigation concluded that combined application of microorganism treated biocomposting units C8 -Raw jackfruit peel + 10 g Pleurotus eous + 10 g Pleurotus florida + Eudrilus eugeniae & C4- Raw cocoa shell+ 10 g Pleurotus eous + 10 g Pleurotus florida+ Eudrilus eugeniae is microbiologically more active than other composting units.