[Stoves] cattle dung

[alex english]

A.D.
There is evidence that some grasses grown on sandy soils have significantly
lower ash content than the same species grown on clay soils. Less
digestable forage would retain higher energy in the manure. Its hard to
have your cake and digest it too:)
Alex

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 9:25 PM, Anand Karve <adkarve at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear stovers,
> India is the world's largest producer of milk. The dairy industry also
> produces a huge quantity of cattle dung. Dung cakes are traditionally
> used as domestic fuel and also for cremating dead bodies. But they
> have the disadvantage of not burning as vigorously as wood. Dung also
> has a very high ash content. Can we devise some method of processing
> it to increase its fuel value?
> Yours
> A.D.Karve
> ***
> Dr. A.D. Karve
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> Chairman, Samuchit Enviro Tech Pvt Ltd (www.samuchit.com)
>
> Trustee & Founder President, Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI)
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