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Question
For your agricultural field or garden, you have developed a compost producing pit. Discuss the process in the light of bad odour, flies and recycling of wastes for a good produce.
Solution 1
It is essential to take proper care of the compost producing pit in order to protect ourselves from bad odour and flies.
It should be kept covered to minimize bad odour and prevent flies from entering it.
The recyclable waste should not be dumped in the compost producing pit. It should be sent to the industries through vendors for recycling.
Solution 2
The compost producing pit should be kept covered so that flies cannot make entry into it and bad odour is minimized.
The waste materials which are non-biodegradable like glasses, plastic bags, polybags must be handed over to the vendors who can send them to the recycling plants
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