Origen, importancia y aplicación de vermicomposta para el desarrollo de especies vegetales
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Eisenia fetida, means of growth, vermicompost, earthworm humus, organic agricultureAbstract
Nowadays, evidence exist that a diversity of earthworm species like Eisenia fetida Savigny, Eisenia andrei Bouché, Lumbricus rubellus Hoffmeister, and Perionyx excavatus Perrier can live outside their natural habi tat. These species have a high capacity to adapt and to reproduce themselves, a voracious appetite, and a great growth rate because they take advantage of diverse organic residues like manure, urban and agro-industrial slug, food and garden residues, as sources of elements and energy to satisfy their nutritional demands. As a result of their metabolic process, the earthworms use, approximately, 40% of the insumed materials for their vital func tions, and expel the rest as excrete, which receives the name of vermicompost or earthworm humus. The effects of vermicompost, as an organic fertilizer in the cultures, has been studied under greenhouse conditions, replacing the traditional commercial growth means used like substrates and, only to a certain degree, under field condi tions. The described results show that the commercial means of growth, that in a traditional way are used in the greenhouses for the development of cultures, can be replaced by mixtures that include different proportions of vermicompost and sand.
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