research articles Development and Value Adding of Earthworm Manure Sorting Machine Research project, development and value addition of earthworm waste sorting machine with purpose To design and build an earthworm waste sorting machine and to transfer technology to those interested in raising earthworms

Abstract

This research project aims aimed to develop and added value of the vermicompost separator machine associate with local community by participatory action research method. The objectives are were 1) to design and build the vermicompost separator machine and 2) to transfer developed technology for to local community in order to promote the earthworm farm in the local community. The scopes of studying content are were: following; 1) raising earthworms at Tam Roy Dham center Center, Ban Kaset Pathana, Kamkwang Sub-district, Warin Chamrab, Ubon Ratchathani, 2) separating process of the vermicompost 3) breeding method and 4) Technology transfer approach. Moreover, the scope of technology development focuses focused on how to separate earthworm from its vermicompost and the application of this machine in a real farm effectively. Besides that, the main research steps are were to design and develop, testing run test machine’s operation, and finally technology transfer by with the collaboration of Pun-Kan organic farm Organic Farm. A questionnaire was used as a tool to survey opinions of the target group. The research result shows shown that the developed machine is was able to separate vermicompost into 4 parts; includes, 1) earthworm 2) vermicompost 3) vermicompost mixed with earthworm’s eggs, and 4) food residues, which reached the research goal.Therefore,