Worms are farmer’s friends

Most current agricultural practices are not sustainable. For instance the discharge of livestock manure is polluting waters. A solution to avoid manure disposal is to compost manure with maize and worms, so-called vermicomposting. Scientists Guo et al. studied the economical benefits of vermicomposting cattle manure with maize. They found that vermicomposting increases agricultural benefits by 304% compared to classical composting.