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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="general-sciences" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">2119</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>General Sciences</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>INCREASING PHOSPHORUS AVAILABILITY FROM FLY ASH THROUGH VERMICOMPOSTING&#13;
EMPLOYING EISENIA FOETIDA&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Barsainya</surname><given-names>Manjari</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Sheikh</surname><given-names>Assadullah</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>A.K.Giri</surname><given-names/></name></contrib></contrib-group><volume/><issue/><fpage>186</fpage><lpage>192</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>The increasing environmental problems are created by large-scale production of fly ash (FA), attention&#13;
is now been paid to the recycling of FA as a good source of nutrients. An important component of&#13;
recycling effort is using FA to improve low fertility soils. The study explored the possibility of increasing&#13;
phosphorus availability in FA through vermicomposting. Present investigation showed that pH of the&#13;
treated and controlled series was decreased with increase in FA concentrations and the biomass&#13;
production of the earthworm was increased in the progression of 0% __ampersandsigngt; 5% __ampersandsigngt; 10% __ampersandsigngt; 25% __ampersandsigngt; 50%. The&#13;
different combinations of FA and cattle dung (CD) showed that phosphorus availability in FA due to&#13;
vermicompost was significantly increased in the 5%, 10% followed by 25% and 50% combinations. The&#13;
concentration of nutrients was found to increase in the earthworm treated series of cattle dung and FA&#13;
combinations. The increase in available phosphorus may be attributed to direct action of worm gut&#13;
enzymes and indirectly by stimulation of micro flora.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Fly ash</kwd><kwd> environmental problems</kwd><kwd> cattle dung</kwd><kwd> vermicomposting</kwd><kwd> Eisenia foetida</kwd><kwd> biomass.</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
