KARACHI: In the flood-scarred plains of southern Pakistan, where rising salinity and hardened soil are squeezing farm incomes, 30-year-old Dhani Satram has found unlikely allies: earthworms.
The mother of six farms in Bachal Sand village in Sindh’s Tando Allahyar district. In recent years, her sugarcane fields were losing productivity as repeated floods and long dry spells compacted the land.
Now she produces and applies vermicompost — an organic fertilizer made with worms — and says the results have been dramatic.
“First, we bring animal dung and water it. Then we make a bed and put the worms into it. When it is ready, we apply it to our crops,” she told Arab News, describing the simple process she carries out at home.
A man is checking examining vermicompost on a farm in Tando Allahyar district of Pakistan's Sindh province on February 11, 2026. (AN photo)
