{"id":1478,"date":"2019-06-25T19:56:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T18:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inra.fr\/agronomy\/?p=1478"},"modified":"2019-06-25T19:56:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T18:56:04","slug":"vermicomposting-to-improve-waste-management-and-increase-yields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2019\/06\/25\/vermicomposting-to-improve-waste-management-and-increase-yields\/","title":{"rendered":"Vermicomposting to improve waste management and increase yields"},"content":{"rendered":"<script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/d1bxh8uas1mnw7.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js'><\/script><figure id=\"attachment_1479\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1479\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1479 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inra.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/06\/compost-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/06\/compost-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/06\/compost-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/06\/compost.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/06\/compost-640x425.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1479\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture copyright Compostador, Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Vermicomposting is a process whereby earthworms transform organic residues into compost used as a growing substrate for plants. Scientists <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s13593-019-0579-x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blouin et al<\/a>. recently showed that on average, vermicompost increased by 26% the commercial yield of cultivated plants. Cattle manure appeared the best original material, and the effect of vermicompost was stronger when no fertilizer was added.<\/p>\n<div class='altmetric-embed altmetric-embed' data-badge-type='donut' data-doi='10.1007\/s13593-019-0579-x'   ><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vermicomposting is a process whereby earthworms transform organic residues into compost used as a growing substrate for plants. Scientists Blouin et al. recently showed that on average, vermicompost increased by 26% the commercial yield of cultivated plants. Cattle manure appeared the best original material, and the effect of vermicompost was stronger when no fertilizer was &#8230; <a title=\"Vermicomposting to improve waste management and increase yields\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2019\/06\/25\/vermicomposting-to-improve-waste-management-and-increase-yields\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Vermicomposting to improve waste management and increase yields\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-waste-use-in-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}