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Making some biochar out of that woody biomass may be easier & have better outcomes for your soil. Check out WarmHeart work on this in Nth Thailand
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Maybe Black Soldier Fly farm is more versatile option? The grubs are grown for fish farms.
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I'm based in Malaysia where there are 4-500 palm oil mills and I suggest almost none of them use gasification. All tradition raked hearth boilers (lots of ash dumped or sent back to plantation soils). My focus is biochar so I'm keen to see a revolution in biomass energy management in the mill. This needs pyrolysis (or maybe gasification?).
I'm sure Thailand is different and I know better feed-in tariffs have led to more biomass gasification projects in Thailand. Sorry - probably wondered off topic a bit.
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Interesting that a search on 'biochar' in this document pulls no results but a similar search on their website pulls 94 results. Biochar is a proven tool for water management in agriculture.
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Have you considered experimenting with biochar.
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Maybe this will be of interest for new applications for coconut biomass...
http://sea-biochar.blogspot.com/search/label/coconut
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I'm no expert on trees or their diseases but I am closely connected to biochar.
There is interest in using biochar to heal sick trees... the Japanese have a long tradition with this...
https://www.biochar-journal.org/itjo/fe/pub/en/ct/75-Biochar-in-Japan-Makoto-Ogawa-recalls-a-lifetime-of-work-on-biochar-fungi-and-plant-growth-interaction
There is a lot of interest in biochar benefits for fungal and phytophthora pathogens...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ar7tje52td6skly/Biochar%20Zwart%2C%20HortScience%2047%2812%29.pdf?dl=0
Amazing success with ash dieback in UK (search 'biochar ash dieback').
We are planning trials on avocado also with the hope it will have some positive effect on kauri dieback in NZ
I have no idea what is causing your problem but it would not be hard to make some biochar and try it out (and you can always turn that tree into biochar later!)
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Check out long term biochar activities of WarmHeart in the region....
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I suggest broadening your options... why not try producing your own biochar. Much bigger bang for your buck (or free, if you have biomass & time). Check out WarmHeart activity near Chiang Mai.
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Wood distillation is something you could try. Charcoal/biochar production via pyrolysis provides opportunities to extract wood vinegar. There are some v.simple systems with retort drums. Allowing the retort gas to cool before flaring will produce useful natural distillates that you can use in many ways... including soil pH adjustment. Plenty of video available online with some searching.
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I'm helping organise a biochar workshop in Chiang Mai.
It was kicked off to support biochar training for a large durian farm in Malaysia.
We currently have about 10 participants, mainly from Malaysia but we have room for a few more.
http://warmheartworldwide.org/ will be running the workshop - they have good experience with biochar production and applications.
Check out the flyer here... http://sea-biochar.blogspot.my/2017/01/thailand-workshop-18-20-february.html
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I'm helping organise a biochar workshop in Chiang Mai.
It was kicked off to support biochar training for a large durian farm in Malaysia.
We currently have about 10 participants, mainly from Malaysia but we have room for a few more.
http://warmheartworldwide.org/ will be running the workshop - they have good experience with biochar production and applications.
Check out the flyer here... http://sea-biochar.blogspot.my/2017/01/thailand-workshop-18-20-february.html
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Has anyone experimented with biochar as a hydroponic media?
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Here in Malaysia, I'm hearing anecdotal reports on biochar from waste coconut (shell/husk) charcoal production being used by farmers in their banana crops to help with fungal disease (I assume Fusariam). I've not got access to these farmers yet but MARDI are interested. Biochar should be a great carrier for your biology.
Cheers, Trevor
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Another suggestion (a little outside the box). See if they will self-medicate on charcoal. Some Japanese chicken farmers have eliminated all antibiotics using a charcoal regime. This was presented at a biochar conference I attended in Oz in 2009. You may be able to find reports with some internet searching.
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How about trying biochar in your soil - this is basically charcoal which is easy to make at home in all sorts of ways. Its a permanent ammendment to the soil which will compliment other organic material (which will be used up on a regular basis - food for soil life /plant). There is plenty of information about biochar production and application to be found on the web. http://sea-biochar.blogspot.com/
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Slash & burn agriculture is a seasonal problem in many places. We suffer badly every year, here in KL, with haze from land clearing in Borneo and Sumatra.
The promotion of 'slash&char' would be a great solution but broad acceptance of biochar for soil ammedment is still slow to get going.
You could try this yourself on your woody biomass... it will improve your compost in many ways. Check out BackYardBiochar site.
Cheers, Trevor
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If you have wood or other dry biomass around and an inclination for 'burning' stuff, you could have a go at modifying your soil with biochar (try a google search) or find out more here... but a soil test is a good idea.
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Hi from Malaysia,
At last I've found a group actively discussing biochar in this part of the world. My interested in this subject led me to attend the 1st Asia-Pacific biochar conference (Australia-May). I came back full of ideas about getting biochar activity going in Malaysia & SEA. I am not a farmer but my roots are firmly bedded in the soils of the Waikato in NZ.
My background in engineering initially sparked my interest in pyrolysis, but I've been burying my nose deep in dirt as well (from the safety of my keyboard!).
I believe that biochar will grow into a major industry - and that this will be accelerated by future acceptance as a carbon sequestration tool. This is currently a hot topic on biochar discussion lists.
I've been researching regional activity on the subject. I think much more could be done. I realise that you guys are out there getting your hands dirty. I would guess that some of you are interested in experimenting with biochar in your soils. Your positive or negative biochar feed-back from the fields will be of great interest to others around the world.
Also needed are research and field trials leading to published papers and there is not much of this going on. This will require collaborations between farmers, researchers (universities?) and sponsors (NGO's, GO's). There are a number of aid and research groups active in the region, that have been involved in soil carbon research or have expressed interest in biochar (JICA, CGIAR-IRRI, APN, ACIAR, FAO-RAP). Given some support from these organisations, I hope that a new regional biochar interest group can lead to further research on the performance of biochar in local conditions.
So... any suggestions for getting IBI structured field trials (...biochar-international.org/extension) under way in Thailand?
Which Thai universities are likely to be interested? You know any researchers?
Will govt agencies need to or want to be involved?
Kind regards,
Trevor Richards
FarEastBiochar
....sea-biochar.blogspot.com
....groups.google.com/group/biochar-malaysia
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Hi from Malaysia,
At last I've found a group actively discussing biochar in this part of the world. My interested in this subject led me to attend the 1st Asia-Pacific biochar conference (Australia-May). I came back full of ideas about getting biochar activity going in Malaysia & SEA. I am not a farmer but my roots are firmly bedded in the soils of the Waikato in NZ.
My background in engineering initially sparked my interest in pyrolysis, but I've been burying my nose deep in dirt as well (from the safety of my keyboard!).
I believe that biochar will grow into a major industry - and that this will be accelerated by future acceptance as a carbon sequestration tool. This is currently a hot topic on biochar discussion lists.
I've been researching regional activity on the subject. I think much more could be done. I realise that you guys are out there getting your hands dirty. I would guess that some of you are interested in experimenting with biochar in your soils. Your positive or negative biochar feed-back from the fields will be of great interest to others around the world.
Also needed are research and field trials leading to published papers and there is not much of this going on. This will require collaborations between farmers, researchers (universities?) and sponsors (NGO's, GO's). There are a number of aid and research groups active in the region, that have been involved in soil carbon research or have expressed interest in biochar (JICA, CGIAR-IRRI, APN, ACIAR, FAO-RAP). Given some support from these organisations, I hope that a new regional biochar interest group can lead to further research on the performance of biochar in local conditions.
So... any suggestions for getting IBI structured field trials (...biochar-international.org/extension) under way in Thailand?
Which Thai universities are likely to be interested? You know any researchers?
Will govt agencies need to or want to be involved?
Kind regards,
Trevor Richards
FarEastBiochar
....sea-biochar.blogspot.com
....groups.google.com/group/biochar-malaysia
Woodchipping the hard way.
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