- The Nilgiris Corporation has produced natural vermin-compost fertilisers and successfully sold 17 tonnes.
- There is popular demand for natural fertilisers in the Nilgiris, a massive exercise was undertaken by the Nilgiris sanitary department to produce vermi-compost at Ketti township near Coonoor.
- Ketti has 18 wards and 68 villages. Sanitary workers did door-to-door collection of segregated waste, separating degradable and non-degradable stuff. Personal collection was done in 15 wards while the other three wards put them in public garbage bins.
