The wonders of earthworms & its vermicompost in farm production: Charles Darwin's 'friends of farmers', with potential to replace destructive chemical fertilizers from agriculture

Earthworms and its excreta (vermicast) promises to usher in the 'Second Green Revolution' by completely replacing the destructive agro-chemicals which did more harm than good to both the farmers and their farmland. Earthworms restore & improve soil fertility and significantly boost crop productivity. Earthworms excreta (vermicast) is a nutritive 'organic fertilizer' rich in humus, NKP, micronutrients, beneficial soil microbes -- 'nitrogen-fixing & phosphate solubilizing bacteria' & 'actinomycets' and growth hormones 'auxins', 'gibberlins' & 'cytokinins'. In the experiments with corn & wheat crops, tomato and eggplants it displayed excellent growth performances in terms of height of plants, color & texture of leaves, appearance of flowers & fruits, seed ears etc. as compared to chemical fertilizers and the conventional compost. The study shows that earthworms and vermicompost can promote growth from 50 to 100% over conventional compost & 30 to 40% over chemical fertilizers besides protecting the soil and the agro-ecosystem while producing 'nutritive and tasty food' at a much economical cost (at least 50%-75% less) as compared to the costly chemical fertilizers.