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Charcoal from coffee husks
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Charcoal from coffee husks
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
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| Description |
The Kenya Planters Cooperative Union (KPCU), an organisation of coffee growers, has set up a factory which is now producing 200 tonnes of charcoal a month from 400 tonnes of coffee husks. The technique might result in saving trees from being used as fuelwood. Kenyans use about 21 million tonnes of woodfuel a year, which represents hundreds of thousands of trees. It takes about nine tonnes of wood to produce a tonne of ordinary charcoal whereas the KPCU scheme produces one tonne of charcoal from two tonnes of husks. For further information contact: KPCU PO Box 72309 Nairobi The Kenya Planters Cooperative Union (KPCU), an organisation of coffee growers, has set up a factory which is now producing 200 tonnes of charcoal a month from 400 tonnes of coffee husks. The technique might result in saving trees from being used... |
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1986
2014-10-02T13:13:15Z 2014-10-02T13:13:15Z |
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News Item
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CTA. 1986. Charcoal from coffee husks. Spore 6. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
1011-0054 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/44560 http://collections.infocollections.org/ukedu/en/d/Jcta06e/ |
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en
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Spore
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Open Access
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
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Spore
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