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Get Pricemost of the compost material is composed of leaf litter and/or rice straw decomposition is prolonged from 30 days to 60 to 75 days 8 After another two weeks the compost is already mature Matured compost material is compost that does not generating heat has no smell of decomposing material and looks like soil
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