The disposal of organic wastes and its management has become a major environmental problem all over the world. Earthworms are playing very important role in converting the waste into useful product in the form of vermicompost and worm biomass (vermiprotein). Hence, the present work was undertaken to evaluate the production of vermiprotein as worm biomass and biofertilizer as vermicompost by different epigeic earthworms cultured in mixed organic waste food at uncontrolled room environmental conditions. Observations were made with respect to gross biomass, biomass ratio; fold increase in worm number and percent compost and vermicompost at different time intervals (30, 60 and 90 days). The gross biomass, biomass ratio and fold increase in worm number of all three species of increased significantly from 30, 60 and 90 days period. There is positive correlation with increase in gross biomass, biomass ratio and fold increase in worm number with number of days (30, 60 and 90 days). There is a significant variation in gross biomass, biomass ratio and fold increase in worm number among all three species at different time intervals 30, 60 and 90 days. The % vermicompost is comparatively more than that of normal compost may be because of presence of earthworm and their feeding activities. The percent vermicompost produced was positively correlated with the biomass of worms and fold increase in worm number over the time from 30, 60, and 90 day’s periods.
