Yamoussoukro, Jul 21, 2023 (AIP) – The National Polytechnic Institute Houphouët-Boigny (INPHB) hosted a workshop aimed at encouraging agricultural producers and processors to use products derived from agricultural waste, AIP learned on Friday July 21, 2023.
This is in particular biochar, a charcoal obtained from the carbonization of certain waste such as cassava peelings, cocoa pods.
Biochar can be used either to amend agricultural soil or to design a life-size filter to be able to filter water from rivers and make it drinkable and consumable on a human scale.
“We have shown that these products, depending on the type of soil and the dose concerned, are capable of inducing a positive impact on crop yield,” said a co-coordinator of the Bio4africa project at the INPHB, Prof. Brou Yao Casimir.
According to him, Bio4africa is an international project involving 25 structures around the world with funding from the European Union (EU).
Its main purpose is to recover agricultural by-produts or agricultural waste “to be able to serve both our parents and other users in a circular economy context”.
It is therefore through this project to help producers to use simple technology products implemented within the framework of Bio4africa to be able to generate new sources of income and business opportunities.
For Prof Brou, the general public, producers and companies should familiarize themselves with the products of the Bio4africa project that they can manufacture and use themselves.
“We are a teaching and research structure, we show the way, it will be for entrepreneurs to seize the opportunity,” he said.
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