Use of Biochar for Soil Health Enhancement and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation in India

June 25, 2013 · 0 comments

Use of Biochar for Soil Health Enhancement and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation in India, 2013.

Ch. Srinivasarao, et al.

More than two billion people in developing world still cook and heat their homes with primitive stoves or open fires by burning wood, straw, dung, or coal. These inefficient technologies cause air pollution that can harm respiratory and cardiac health, and exacerbate global warming. New stove technologies can produce both heat for cooking and biochar for carbon sequestration and soil building. Limited testing indicates that these stoves are much more efficient and emit less gas.

The modern Anila stove was developed by U.N. Ravikumar, an environmentalist and engineer with the Centre for Appropriate Rural Technology (CART) at India’s National Institute of Engineering. The key aims of the design are to reduce the indoor air pollution that results from cooking and to take advantage of the abundance of bio-residues found in rural areas in developing countries.

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