BIOCHARCULTURED
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Part II
SOIL
BIOCHAR
BIOCHAR COMPOST
AGRICUTURE
PADDY METHANE EMISSIONS REDUCTION
PESTICIDE & COMPLEX
CHEMICALS AFFECTS
MITIGATION
EMMISIONS REDUCTION FROM FARM
YARD MANURES AND
COMPOSTS
CROP RESIDUE MANAGEMENT
ANIMALS
APPLICATION IN ANIMAL
PLACES TO TAP URINE,
SANITATION AND
EMISSIONS REDUCTION
RUMINANT ANIMALS METHANE EMISSIONS
REDUCTION AS FEED ADDITIVE
SOAKING IN WITH ANIMALS
URINE AND EXCRETA -
VALUE ADDITION
ENERGY
SOURCE FROM EFFICIENT TLUD COOK STOVES
AS BY PRODUCT FROM GASIFIER
STOVES, BOILERS ETC
CHARCOAL PRODUCTION
FROM BIOMASS /
WASTE MANAGEMENT
HABITAT
BIOCHAR BRICKS
BIOCHAR IN AQUARIUMS
BIOCHAR IN POULTRY FARMS
BIOCHAR IN FRIDGES,
MATTRESSES, ETC.
SANITATION
BIOCHAR URINALS
BIOCHAR TOILETS
BIOCHAR IN CATTLE SHEDS
CLEANING PLATES / UTENSILS
BATHING
HEALTH
CLEANING TEETH
BIOCHAR TABLETS
BIOCHAR IN FOOD AS PART
OF FOOD PREPARATIONS
WATER
WATER PURIFICATION – COLOR, ODOR, REMOVAL OF
HARMFUL ELEMENTS,
ETC.
RITUAL / SPIRITUAL / RELIGIOUS / PRACTICES
FIRE / ALTAR / YAGNAS /
AGNIHOTRA
FIRE DURING FESTIVALS
CREMATIONS
NATURAL / ARTIFICIAL
FIRES IN FORESTS /
FIELDS, ETC.
BIOCHARCULTURE
Biocharculture Adaptation benefits
Securing the crop from drought and climate
variabiiity
Reclaim the degraded soils, water conservation,
Lessen the impact of hazardous pesticides
and complex chemicals & to reduce plant
uptake.
reducing emissions and increasing the
sequestration of greenhouse gases
Conversion of cotton stalks into Biochar an option and address
carbon sequestration
Increase in crop yieldincreases in C, N, pH, and available P to the
plants
Impacts of Biochar last more than 1000 years.
SOURCES OF BIOMASS FOR BIOCHARCROP RESIDUE (800 million tons of biomass burnt)
COTTON STALKS (22.3 million tons generated)
PROSOPIS JULIFLORA
RICE HUSK
OTHER BIOMASS
Major challenges of cotton crop
Climate change - variability - extremes
Soil fertility Water management
Impact of hazardous
pesticides and nitrogen fertilizers
Burning of crop residue
Alkalinity of soils
Clean and ……?!
Land poisoned by use of
complex chemical
fertilizers and pesticides
Alkaline Soils
JAGGERYCOMPOST
BIOCHAR
SOIL MICROBES
GREEN MULCH
GEO
CHAR
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BIOCHAR COMPOST