Vermicomposting of phytomass: limitations of the past approaches and the emerging directions

This paper assesses the attempts made so far to vermicompost plant-based substrates and tries to identify the reasons why the laboratory-scale studies have not evolved into larger-scale initiatives in vermicomposting such substrates. Emerging evidence of the efficacy of the high-rate vermicomposting technology in the direct processing of phytomass into fertilizers has been presented.