1. Fully mechanized commercial scale
   1. Mechanized management system
   2. Capacity 5-10 tonnes a week
   3. community involvement - market and customer based driven
   4. Substrate comes form local farms
   5. Capital intensive
   6. Regional Market
   7. Corporation managed and operated
   8. Some online activity for sales and marketing promotions
2. Back yard raising of Vermi
   1. Manual monitoring of Bins
   2. Community involvement - only immediate family
   3. Raising Vermi is pots or old wooden boxes
   4. Average of 1kg of caste production
   5. Barangay/ Village VermiBin
      1. No system for monitoring
      2. community involvement : Barangay/village dwellers
      3. Immediate stake holders: local residents and Officials
      4. Labour Employed: 1 hired Gardener with some volunteers
      5. Local initiative to support RA
      6. Usually for Waste management and or support "Gulayan sa Barangay initiative"
   6. Bins lined with hollow blocks
   7. House hold or garden waste substrate
3. Semi Automated
   1. Electronic Temp. monitoring system
   2. sprinkler system
   3. Private/Corporation owned
   4. some marketing online
   5. supports demand of local Agri businesses
   6. 3-5 workers depending on production volume
4. Virtual Worm Farm
   1. no realstate needed
   2. 24/7 available
   3. minimal start up cost
   4. No borders - accessible online
   5. Virtual Worm Farm Locators- real bins connected remotely to subscribers
   6. Easy to manage- GUI
      1. Vermi-Portable Station
      2. Vermigotchi GUI
   7. realtime status notification
   8. No labour cost needed