Feeding worms

Self-reading the documents, Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan (Hanoi) has raised worms to clean up the organic waste in the trash. This success can change the notion of being 'dirty' when raising worms in the home.

Treat organic waste with worms

Mr. Tuan also intends to combine worm farming and clean vegetable cultivation at home to take advantage of useful worm sources.

Worm raising in the kitchen

Nguyen Anh Tuan is a student of the College of Transportation. He is currently staying at an apartment in the alley of Trieu Khuc Street (Thanh Xuan, Hanoi) with two friends.

Capital interested in green technology and participating in many voluntary movements for the environment, Tuan eagerly implemented the idea of ​​raising earthworms at home after reading articles about raising earthworms to deal with domestic garbage being applied. Popular use in families in many countries around the world such as Canada, Japan and China.

From June 2009, bought 10 kg of earthworm biomass for 12,000 VND per kg, he put it all in a plastic container with a volume of about 40 liters and placed it under the kitchen. The food source for raising earthworms is the amount of organic waste emitted from the living process. Surprisingly, this amount of worms can digest all the waste of all three people in the inn.

In the process of raising worms, Tuan found that earthworms can effectively handle most types of organic waste such as vegetable residues, rice and leftovers ., except for hard like bones and eggshells.

'Treating organic waste with worms is much more convenient and clean than the traditional treatment of putting in nylon bags and throwing them in the lane. Garbage after being digested by worms will become a worm, a very good fertilizer for plants , 'Tuan said.

Domestic worms do not cause dirt.(Photo: Hong Quan)

Eliminate prejudice about worms

In the worm box, the food layer will lie on the top, the worm is below and the worm is concentrated in the middle of these two layers. Just turning up the food layer above can harvest the worms and faeces in the bottom easily. On average each week, this worm barrel produces more than 1 kg of wormwood.Feces and worms that grow from Tuan's worm box are taken back by a local resident to fertilize the vegetable garden and feed the chickens.

The worm worm looks like a loamy soil and doesn't smell. Food during the process of decomposing worms has a slight sour smell, which is difficult to identify at a distance. If the lid is closed, it is completely impossible to smell the smell. 'Worm raising in the kitchen is absolutely hygienic ', Tuan said.

Although home worm farming is quite common in many countries around the world, in Vietnam there is a worm box in the house that is still considered dirty . When he came up with the idea of ​​raising worms, Tuan was subjected to fierce opposition from his housemates. Persuade him to carry out this idea, provided that the inn must be ensured.

The treatment of earthworms has proven to be effective. Nguyen Anh Tuan is planning to combine the raising of worms and planting clean vegetables at home to take advantage of the useful worm source.

According to the guide, worms need to be watered regularly. But according to Nguyen Anh Tuan's experience, breeding worms in lidded bins will maintain moisture because water is less evaporated, so there is no need to irrigate more water.'Pouring trash into the bin' is the only job to maintain the life of worms.

It is possible to take advantage of available things to feed such as: jars, pots, drums, plastic cans, plastic buckets, water tanks that are no longer used, etc. It is also possible to enclose multi-storey earthworms.

Worm tanks must be able to contain food for worms and do not alter the temperature of the food. The water in the food when settling down must have a place to escape, so that the food portion below is not too moist. Packing the earthworms must ensure the tightness, not letting the worms crawl out, escaping from farming. Usually barrels made of wood or plastic.

The treatment of organic waste by worms is much more convenient and clean than the traditional treatment of putting in plastic bags and throwing them in the lane, a very good fertilizer for plants.