PRODUKSI PUPUK ORGANIK KASCING (BEKAS CACING) DARI LIMBAH PETERNAKAN DAN LIMBAH PASAR BERBANTUAN CACING LUMBRICUS RUBELLUS

Abstract

Composting is a decomposition process of complex compound with a special treatment by aerobic microorganism. Naturally, composting to obtain organic fertilizer from cowdung and market waste need a long time.Vermicomposting is a technique to make compost of biodegradable waste become fertilizer with high quality by earth-worm such as Lumbricus Rubellus. This process need 8 week, but with vermicomposting only need a half time. This mechanism was happened because worm assisted to eat cellulose of cowdung which cannot decomposed by composting bacterium. The purpose of this research is to study influence of comparison cowdung and market waste to growth of worm. The variation of some heavy parameter of worm ( 100 gr, 200 gr, 300 gr, 400 gr, 500 gr) and addition of market waste ( 50 gr, 100 gr, 150 gr, 200 gr, 300 gr). The research has been done by mixing 3 kg cowdung with variation of worm heavy, whereas for the variation of addition market waste has been done by mixing 500 gr of worm and 3kg cowdung. The result show is make up of worm weight got by addition of worm which contain 100 gr that is equal to 160 gr during 2 week. For the variation of of addition of market waste, make-up of biggest worm weight in getting from addition of market waste counted 50 gr, heavy of worm mount equal to 60 gr. The process to make fertilizer compost is influenced by materials composition which used as media,the comparison of livestock waste media with many worm and also influenced by addition of market waste.