Jammu and Kashmir: Govt reviving vermicompost culture to produce organic vegetables, farmers appreciate

Experts believe the move has been made by the Centre to educate farmers and produce quality and cost-effective yield.

“With the help of these low-cost vermicompost units, farmers can adopt this system in agricultural lands and produce good quantities of organic vegetables, which is the need of the hour. We all know that any fertiliser or pesticides are harmful to our health,” Dr Rizwan, Assistant Professor of Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agriculture Scientists and Technology (SKUAST), told ANI.

Rizan said that even the World Health Organisation (WHO) is also recommending farmers to focus on the cultivation of organic vegetables.

He told ANI that scientists at the university are working hard to spread awareness among farmers about the importance and benefits of vermicompost culture. 

A local farmer appreciated the university staff for training them on ways to produce vegetables using vermicompost.

“Using vermicompost better quality vegetables are produced. All the staff members here are helping us. They also give us technical knowledge. It is well known that vegetable produced from vermicompost is of far superior quality, and also good for our health,” Nissar Ahmad told ANI.