TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - AGRICULTURE - Preferred Components: The chopped agricultural waste comprises distilled waste of crops chosen from scented geranium, citronella, menthol mint, agro-waste from rice straw, Brassica waste and sugarcane waste. The agricultural waste comprises agro-waste (which are not easily decomposed and not preferred as such by worms for their growth). The agro-waste is pine needle or sugarcane trash. The agricultural waste comprises waste from medicinal, spice crop, plant wastes from Plantago ovata, Papavar someniferum, Coriandrum sativum and Foeniculum vulgarae, preferably wheat straw or distillation waste of lemongrass. The animal urine is urine of cattle species and domestic animals e.g. buffalo, horse, pigs, sheep and goat. The waste comprises:(a) distillation waste obtained after distillation of lemongrass herbage for 3 hours at 20-25 lbs, steam inlet pipe pressure for 72 hours; and(b) wheat straw obtained 2 months after harvest of wheat and pine needles, which are chopped into small pieces of 10-15 cm size.Preferred Composition: The composting composition has nutritional status after composting and contains nitrogen (1.32-1.60%), phosphorus (0.56-0.71%), potassium (391-574 ppm), iron (340-706 ppm), zinc (260-340 ppm), manganese (256-305 ppm) and organic carbon (13-15.6%), and has pH 6.06-6.94.Preferred Properties: The waste material comprising chopped distillation waste of lemongrass, has microbial population of 3.8 x 105 (bacteria), 2.6 x 105 (fungi) and 2.9 x 105 (actinomycetes), after application of animal urine.Preferred Process: The treated agricultural waste is transferred to container containing earthworms and dry unrotten cattle dung. The compost is harvested after 90 days and then dried for 72 hours, and the dried material sieved to separate the compost, the earthworms and undecomposed material. EXAMPLE - A worm bed of 4.5 m long, 1.2 m wide and 0.5 m deep was prepared in a pit. The base of the pit was covered with coarse sand (4-5 cm layer) followed by another layer of field soil (4-5 cm) and a layer of partially decomposed cow dung (7-10 cm). The inner side of the pit was lined with bricks. The worms Perionyx excavatus 2000/pit were released into the beds. The dried rice straw chopped into small pieces mixed with unrotten cow dung was placed in the beds and filled. The beds were watered daily, kept moist and frequently aerated (at least twice a week). After 4 months the well-grown worms (8-10 cm long) were used for composting. The effect of cattle's urine on cultivation/multiplication of worms and time to compost were evaluated. The experiment was conducted in cement pots in which a base layer of partially rotten cow dung (200 g) was provided. 50 worms were added and the pots were loaded with 500 g of agro/distillation waste. The total number of earthworms was recorded 90 days after loading of waste. The harvested compost was sieved to separate undecomposed material and the resultant sieved compost produced was taken as indicator of faster composting process. The distillation waste of Cymbopogon flexuosus served as better substrate for multiplication of earthworms. The number of worms harvested after 90 days were higher (210 and 229) in the pots containing wheat straw and 50% cattle's urine, and lemongrass distillation waste and 50% of cattle's urine, respectively. The harvested weight of vermicompost produced from distillation waste of lemongrass and wheat straw was 243 g and 531 g, respectively from the cattle's urine treated pots.