Volume 14, Issue 56, 2025 (October – December)
Research Article
Biochemical Approaches for Accelerated Decomposition of Sericultural Wastes Using Microbial Consortia
A Mahadeva, N Siddalingaswamy., Ramya M.N. and Sreeroopa
Keywords: sericulture wastes, waste decomposer, Trichoderma harzianum, cow dung slurry
DOI:10.37273/chesci.cs112056091
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Abstract
Mulberry foliage is the sole food for silkworm, Bombyx mori. Farmers are adopted to whole shoot harvesting and feeding their leaves to silkworm. Silkworm rearing bed contains huge number of mulberry shoots, which needs to be a longer time to decompose. Farmers are dumping this seri-waste nearby roadsides or their mulberry garden and burning them. It is not reaching to their mulberry garden for recycling of organic and nutritive component present in them. Therefore, efforts have been made to identify microbes to hasten decomposing of seri-waste. The sericulture waste was treated with a combination of cow dung slurry, microbial consortia (Waste Decomposer), Farm yard manure (FYM) and T. harzianum and green manure. The treatments were maintained with proper moisture and frequent mixing up to 180 days. The samples for the estimation organic carbon and nitrogen were collected after the 90 days of initiation of treatment and upto 180 days with the 30 days. It was found that the treatment of Sericulture Waste treated with Cow dung slurry + T. harzianum shown a fast conversion of organic carbon followed by Sericulture Waste treated with Waste Decomposer and T. harzianum.
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