Growing Plants on Vermicompost as a Way to Produce High Quality Foods

Abstract

Fertiliser application plays an important role for quantity of crops. Consideration of soli degradation as an effect of over-fertiliser application is also important. A large concentration of mineral nitrogen and potassium in soil disturbs biological relationship between soil, plants and human health. In many fruits and vegetables the nitrate and heavy metals contents exceed their permissible levels. It is possoble to prevent this by replacing mineral fertilisers with vermicompost. There are some evidences that vermicompost can promote the growth of plants [1,2,7,8].