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Indian Standard
AGRO TEXTILES — HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENE
(HDPE) WOVEN BEDS FOR VERMICULTURE —
SPECIFICATION
ICS 65.080;83.020.20;83.140.01
© BIS 2010
BUREAU OF INDIAN STANDARDS
MANAK BHAVAN, 9 BAHADUR SHAH ZAFAR MARG
NEW DELHI 110002
FOREWORD
This Indian Standard was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards, after the draft finalized by the Technical
Textiles for Agro-tech Sectional Committee had been approved by the Textile Division Council.
Today’s agriculture or farming is in great threat due to regular use of chemical fertilizers. The soil texture is being
deteriorated and becoming salinated. There is no incremental output and even quality of soil is also deteriorating
and crops are increasingly becoming prone to various diseases. This leads to increased expenditure on agro-
medicines. Most important is the decay of various/useful organic factors from the soil. Here organic fertilizers
play a major role in maintaining the texture, quality and yield of the soil. Organic fertilizer is nothing but fertilizer
produced by decomposition of organic waste of agro based products. This fertilizer provides all sixteen types of
main, subsidiary and micro-nutrients with different vitamins and digestive elements. Traditionally cement structures
were used for the purpose but of late portable beds made from plastics have made entry into the market. These
synthetic beds enjoy greater advantages over the traditional ones in terms of space, durability, ease of handling,
yield of compost, cost, etc.
The composition of the Committee responsible for the formulation of this standard is given in Annex F.
For the purpose of deciding whether a particular requirement of this standard is complied with, the final value,
observed or calculated, expressing the result of a test or analysis, shall be rounded off in accordance with IS 2 : 1960
‘Rules for rounding off numerical values (revised)’. The number of significant places retained in the rounded off
value should be the same as that of the specified value in this standard.
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Indian Standard
AGRO TEXTILES — HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENE
(HDPE) WOVEN BEDS FOR VERMICULTURE —
SPECIFICATION
1 SCOPE linear density of the tape shall be 88.8 Tex (800 Denier)
minimum.
This standard prescribes constructional and other
requirements for high density polyethylene (HDPE) NOTE — Carbon black or black master batch shall not be used
woven beds for vermiculture used in producing for UV stabilization.
compost for agricultural purposes.
4.2 HDPE Fabric
2 REFERENCES Beds shall be manufactured by using suitable HDPE
The standards listed in Annex A contain provisions woven fabric (see IS 6899) so that finished bed meets
which through reference in this text, constitute the requirements given in Table 1 and 5.1 to 5.3.
provision of this standard. At the time of publication,
4.3 Lamination
the editions indicated were valid. All standards are
subject to revision and parties to agreements based on 4.3.1 The fabric shall be laminated with the low density
this standard are encouraged to investigate the polyethylene (LDPE) or suitable combination of LDPE
possibility of applying the most recent editions of the and linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) melt of
standards indicated in Annex A. coating grade on each side having thickness not less
than 25 microns and the coating shall be suitably UV
3 TERMINOLOGY stabilized by incorporating UV stabilizer (see Note
For the purpose of this standard the following under 4.1). The coating film along with colour master
definitions shall apply. batch to get the desired shade shall be such that the
finished bed meets the requirements of UV stability
3.1 Vermicompost — It is well decomposed stable, and colour fastness to light as given in Table 1.
fine granular byproduct from composting process
mediated through the activities of earthworm. 4.3.2 A 7-layer laminated fabric is produced using a
combination of 3-layers of HDPE fabric and 4-layers
3.2 Vermiculture — The process of producing
of coating film. The layers of HDPE fabric used to
vermicompost is called vermiculture. The earth worm
manufacture beds shall be joined by sandwich
gives excreta fast, after eating any kind of decayed
lamination. The lamination as given above shall be such
decomposed organic material. Hence, the crop/plants
that the finished bed meets the requirements given in
can get the additional nutrients from vermicompost.
Table 1. The minimum coating thickness of the
Eisena foetida worm may be used in the process.
sandwich lamination shall be 40µ.
3.3 Vermiwash — The liquid collected at the drain of
the bed is called vermiwash. This liquid consists of 4.4 Cord Beading
different micro-nutrients vitamins and digestive A jute/sisal rope beading of minimum 6.0 mm diameter
elements. Earthworm excretes a sticky liquid from its shall be provided along the top periphery of the bed
glandor. This contains Colamic pyulite and antifungal for reinforcement.
liquid.
5 MANUFACTURE
4 MATERIALS
5.1 General design of the bed shall be as shown in
4.1 HDPE Tapes Fig. 1.
Tapes shall be manufactured from HDPE granules (see
5.2 Construction
IS 6192), which shall be UV stabilized by adding
suitable UV stabilizer (see Note). The finished bed shall 5.2.1 The bed shall be constructed by heat sealing
meet the requirements of UV stability and colour laminated pieces of woven fabric of the desired
fastness to light as given in Table 1. The width of the dimensions. The panels shall be flat (overlap) joined.
tape used in the fabric shall be 1.20 mm minimum and The top edges of the bed shall be hemmed by heat
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FIG. 1 TYPICAL SHAPE OF A VERMIBED
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6 REQUIREMENTS 8 PACKING
The laminated HDPE fabric used to manufacture bed The beds shall be packed as agreed to between the
shall meet the requirements as given in Table 1. buyer and the seller.
Besides the bed shall meet the requirements stated
in 5.1 to 5.3. 9 SAMPLING
The bed shall be made to the shade and dimensions as The quantity of bed of same size and mass (g/m2)
specified in the contract or order. The following manufactured under similar conditions and delivered
tolerance shall be permissible for length, width and to a buyer against one dispatch note shall constitute a
mass (g/m2): lot.
Dimension Tolerance, Percent 9.2 Unless otherwise agreed to between the buyer and
the seller, the number of beds to be selected at random
Length ±1 from a lot shall be as given in col 3 of Table 2.
Width ±1
Mass (g/m2) ± 6 percent on declared mass subject 10 NUMBER OF TEST SPECIMENS AND
to minimum mass of 340 g/m2 CRITERIA FOR CONFORMITY
However, the preferred dimensions of the bed shall be Number of test specimens and criteria for conformity
3 600 mm (L) × 1 200 mm (W) × 600 mm (H). shall be as given in Table 3.
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ANNEX A
(Clause 2)
LIST OF REFERRED INDIAN STANDARDS
ANNEX B
[Table 1, Sl No. (iv) and (vi)]
UV RESISTANCEb TEST
a
B-1 TEST SPECIMENS B-3.2.1 The type of fluorescent UV lamp, the timing
The test specimens for breaking and seam strength shall of the UV exposure and the temperature of
be cut from the sample as specified in IS 1969 for condensation shall be specified in B-2.
modified grab test. B-3.3 Determine the average breaking strength and
seam strength of the specimens separately after UV
B-2 TEST CONDITIONS
exposure as mentioned above.
B-2.1 The test shall be carried out with fluorescent UV-
B-3.4 Determine the percent retention of original
B lamp (313 nanometer or its equivalent).
strength and seam strength as follows:
B-2.2 The duration of the test shall be 144 h (that is 6
days). Percent retention of original breaking = × 100
strength or seam strength
B-2.3 The test cycle shall be 8 h at 60 + 3ºC with UV where
radiation alternating after 4 h at 50 + 3ºC with
a = average breaking strength or seam strength
condensation.
before UV exposure as obtained in B-3.1,
B-2.4 Irradiation level throughout the test shall be and
maintained at 0.63 ± 0.03 W/m². b = average breaking strength or seam strength
B-3 TEST PROCEDURE after UV exposure as obtained in B-3.3.
NOTES
B-3.1 Determine the original average breaking strength
and seam strength of bed specimens separately as per 1 The UV source is an array of fluorescent lamps (with lamp
emission concentrated in the UV range).
the modified grab test specified in IS 1969.
2 Condensation is produced by exposing the test surface to a
B-3.2 Expose the specimens alternately to ultraviolet heated, saturated mixture of air and water vapour, while the
reverse side of the test specimen is exposed to the cooling
light alone and to condensation in one respective cycle. influence of ambient room air.
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ANNEX C
[Table 1, Sl No. (viii)]
TEST METHOD FOR INDEX PUNCTURE RESISTANCE
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ANNEX D
[Table 1, Sl No. (ix)]
METHOD OF TEST FOR RESISTANCE TO ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS CRACKING
D-1 APPARATUS shall have a length of 150 ± 3 mm and width of
An air oven controlled at 60 ± 2ºC. 50 ± 3 mm.
ANNEX E
[Table 1, Sl No. (x)]
TEST FOR RESISTANCE TO CHEMICAL ACTION
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ANNEX F
(Foreword)
COMMITTEE COMPOSITION
Technical Textiles for Agro-tech Sectional Committee, TXD 35
Organization Representative(s)
Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi DR H. S. GUPTA (Chairman)
Business Co-ordination House Pvt Ltd, New Delhi SHRI SAMIR GUPTA
SHRIMATI RITIKA GUPTA (Alternate)
Central Institute of Plastics Engineering & Technology (CIPET), DR S. N. YADAV
Bhubaneswar
Coir Board, Kochi DIRECTOR
Confederation of Indian Industry, New Delhi DIRECTOR
CTM Technical Textiles Ltd, Ahmedabad SHRI AMIT AGARWAL
E.I.Du-Pont India Private Limited, Gurgaon SHRI ATANU ACHARYA
FICCI, New Delhi SHRI CHETAN BIJESURE
Indian Institute of Packaging, New Delhi SHRI MADHAB CHAKRABORTY
Indian Jute Industries’ Research Association, Kolkata SHRI P. K. CHOUDHURY
SHRI AMAL CHANDRA DEKA (Alternate)
Institute of Jute Technology, Kolkata PRINCIPAL
Lamifab & Paper (P) Ltd, Aurangabad SHRI KAMLESH D HOOT
SHRI KISHORI LAL DHOOT (Alternate)
National Committee on Plasticulture Application in Horticulture, SHRI KRISH S. IYENGAR
New Delhi SHRI NARESH MODI (Alternate)
Office of the Textile Commissioner, Mumbai SHRI M. BALUCHAMY
SHRI J. AHMED (Alternate)
The Bombay Textile Research Association, Mumbai SHRI V. K. PATIL
SHRI C. H. SAKHARKAR (Alternate)
The Synthetic & Art Silk Mills Research Association, Mumbai DR MANISHA MATHUR
SHRIMATI MANISHA A. HIRA (Alternate)
BIS Directorate General SHRI P. BHATNAGAR, Scientist ‘E’ and Head (TXD)
[Representing Director General (Ex-officio)]
Member Secretary
SHRI J. K. GUPTA
Scientist ‘C’ (TXD), BIS
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