FEBiochar

https://warmheartworldwide.org/biochar-training/

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

Maybe Black Soldier Fly farm is more versatile option? The grubs are grown for fish farms.

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. 

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.

Have you considered experimenting with biochar.

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

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.

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

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....sea-biochar.blogspot.com

....groups.google.com/group/biochar-malaysia

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