author(s)
IA Baba, MT Banday, HM Khan, AA Khan and M Untoo

abstract
Present study was conducted during the year 2016 (January-March for winter trail and May-July for summer trail) to assess the economics of composting of poultry farm waste under the agroclimatic conditions of Kashmir Valley in the Division of Livestock Production and Management, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry (SKUAST- Kashmir). Poultry farm waste in the form of poultry carcass and poultry litter was selected for this purpose. Four treatment recipes formulated for composting were: T_1: Poultry carcass + Poultry litter, T₂: Poultry carcass + Poultry litter + Paddy straw, T₃: Poultry carcass + Poultry litter + Effective Microbes and T_4: Poultry carcass + Poultry litter + Paddy straw + Effective Microbes. Each treatment was having four replicates. The sale rate of the end product was kept as Rs. 4.31/kg. The net profit of composting (winter + summer) was highest in T₃ (Rs. 614.87) and lowest in treatment group T₂ (Rs. 418.83). Similarly net profit per bin was also higher in treatment group T₃ (Rs. 204.95) and lowest in T₂ (Rs. 139.61). The total net profit obtained during both the seasons was Rs. 3550.3 during both the seasons.