Vermicompost Bed Economics
Compost Business Profit Calculator
Enter your land, labour and local prices — see exactly how many beds you can run, what setup costs, and what the business pays back per cycle and per year.
Your plot, laid out in beds
0 beds
Each block is one 30 × 4 ft bed.
1Land & Beds
Choose how many beds to start with. Many customers start small and multiply their worms for the next cycle.
beds
0 sq ft
2Bed Foundation — one-time
Flattening, bricks laying and floor covering per bed.
₹
Used bricks — ₹4
New bricks — ₹7
sq ft/bed
₹/sq ft
3Raw Material — Dung — per cycle
Cow/buffalo dung is the only feedstock considered.
quintal
₹/qtl
4Labour — bed making, per cycle
One labourer fills 4 beds/day with treated dung. Cost recurs each cycle.
₹/day
beds
5Earthworms — one-time
kg
₹/kg
6Bed Covering, Maintenance & Harvest — per cycle
Covering (jute bags, dry leaves, green net) is nominal — often free from local farmers.
₹/bed
₹/bed
7Processing, Bagging & Sale
Sieving, weighing, bagging, loading — applied to finished compost. Manure recovery is fixed at 40%.
₹/qtl
₹/qtl
₹/qtl
₹/qtl
Calculated at 4 cycles per year (~91 days/cycle)
Cycle Snapshot
Total dung used / cycle
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Total compost generated / cycle
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Total revenue / cycle
₹0
Cost per quintal (finished)
₹0
One-Time Capital Investment
₹0
Bricks, tarpaulin & earthworms across all beds
Bricks₹0
Tarpaulin₹0
Earthworms₹0
Per Cycle — All Beds
Total compost produced0 kg
Revenue (compost sold)₹0
Raw material (dung)₹0
Bed making charges₹0
Bed covering, watering & harvesting labour₹0
Sieving, weighing, bagging & loading labour₹0
Bag cost₹0
Other expenses₹0
Net profit / cycle₹0
Annual Outlook
₹0net profit / year
4 cycles a year
Margin
0%
Payback
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Machinery changes this math.
The right screening & sieving setup cuts processing cost and lifts output quality. Talk to Anand Organics about compost screening machinery built for this scale.