Waste Management for Sustainable Agricultural Production-A Brief Review

Waste management is the collection, transport, processing, managing and monitoring of waste material which is produced by the act of human and generally carried out to reduce their detrimental effect on environment, human health and aesthetic. Waste management has been considered as one of the major problem in developing and developed country. Rapid urbanization and population growth contributes to generation of huge quantity of agricultural waste in the country, causing environmental degradation. Conversion of agricultural waste into organic resources or organic fertilizer is an effective approach to address proper waste management in urban and semi urban areas. A sustainable agricultural production in the country can be achieved either through low input sustainable agriculture or organic farming. Amongst the Asia and Pacific regions, Peoples’ Republic of China produces highest quantity of agricultural waste, followed by India. It is estimated that nearly 700 million tonnes of organic waste is generated annually in India which is either burned or land filled (Mane and Smita, 2011), and nearly 700 million tonnes of annually generated organic agricultural waste can be easily converted to organic fertilizer through Vermicomposting, which in turn will promote organic farming, employment generation and decrease pollution. Organic farming by vermicompost can sequesters huge amount of atmospheric carbon and bury them back into the soil as soil organic carbon, improving soil fertility and also mitigating global warming.