Biochar: Bringing toxic land back to life

The use of biochar to bring toxic land back to life for use by the project community  was to restore useful farming economic life back to over 1000 families whose livelihood depended on agricultural activities for survival. Though  fundraising for this life saving project is quite slow, the project team is very hopeful for its successful implemtation. 

The project team, within  the reporting time frame, continued with  facilitating of collection of crop wastes from farms and  communities and sun drying to prepare biochar and accumulate for use in the treatment of the toxic land. Bioichar was made from the biomass (crop waste) as offsite preparation towards convertion of the degraded land to arable land for the project cummunity's use for farming activities. The amount of crop waste collected which could have been dispossed off through burning and poluting the atmosphere with  carbon in the form of smoke has been avoided and converted into solid carbon, biochar, which has been stored  and will be put into the soil to make the degraded land for useful economic life. 

All these activities carried out were made possible with the support from our various donors. The project team is grateful for the generousity of all our donors.

The project biochar bringing toxic land back to life could not fundraise adequate funding to implement the major activities. Within this limitation however, the donations amount from our few donors enable the project perform some activities. Within the reporting period community members were engaged in collection of crop wastes from the local communities. This crop wastes which could have been disposed of in an open fire to pollute the atmosphere will be converted into biochar to add to biochar stock from the past activities . Several tons of biochar (carbon) is needed to put into the toxic soil to convert the degraded land, through small scale gold mining, into arable land for the restoration of coffee and cocoa farms. We thank our donors for their kind support and future support to restore economic life to over 1000 families.