A new research on biochar funded by the Department of Science and Technology-National Research Council of the Philippines (DOST-NRCP) has gained the interest of farmers, households, and rural developers through the direct application of its results, which is a feat for a basic research.

NRCP Division VI (Agriculture and Forestry)’s Gina Pangga, its proponent, studied the potential of common agricultural wastes like corn cobs, water hyacinth, mahogany receptacles, and rice hull and straw, to produce quality biochars as soil conditioner.

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