<div>Our State Government's Department of Forests have taken the decision to allow people to collect the fallen leaves and to convert them into fuel briquettes or charcoal briquettes. The leaf fall begins in October after the end of the monsoon rains and by about November, the trees have no leaves left on them. These dry leaves lying on the forest floor represent a fire hazard. The Government has to spend money to remove them. If the new scheme succeeds and people living in and near the forests find that they can earn money by converting the leaves into briquettes, they may remove the leaves voluntarily. We are collaborating with the Government in teaching the beneficiaries the technology of charring and briquetting leaves, and also in using the char briquettes as cooking fuel. The char briquettes burn without any smoke at all, and if the beneficiaries used our cooker, just 100 to 150 g briquettes can cook the meal of an entire family of 5 to 6 persons.</div>
<div>There is also another use for the fallen leaves. Rice is first grown in a nursery and the seedlings are transplanted into the field after about a month. At the seedling stage, it becomes difficult to distinguish between the seedlings of rice and those of grass. Farmers spread the dry leaves on the area meant to be used as seedling nursery and ignite them. This procedure burns off all the weed seeds in that plot and when one sows rice seed into the beds, one gets seedlings without grass seedlings mixed with them. </div>
<div>Yours</div>
<div>A.D.Karve</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 6:01 AM, Frans Peeters <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peetersfrans@telenet.be" target="_blank">peetersfrans@telenet.be</a>></span> wrote:</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:10pt"> Free fuel from woods, its falling twigs,leaves and pine needles also pine appels are rotting !<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:10pt">It must be harvested and dryed in summer and kept dry under roofs or plastic film .<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:10pt">Energy calculated for a Kg fuel is 4 KWh for wood and 5 KWh for dry grasses !!!.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:10pt">Dry pine needles will be as good as pellets ! Free and no production cost if you collect it yourself .<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:10pt">Pellets cost twice as much as fuel wood here !<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:10pt"> Your 5 $ stove made of an old propane cylinder seafly cut with a jigsaw is strong enoug to last for a lifetime !<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:10pt">If you collect <u></u>20 kg<u></u> free fuel every nice wether day, you get 4 ton a year for heating and coocking !.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="fuchsia" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Arial;COLOR:fuchsia;FONT-SIZE:10pt;FONT-WEIGHT:bold">So your DREAM is realised !<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:10pt"> We must also admit ,some of us are too lazy to collect fuel and wait for getting subsidies to buy fuel …...<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Arial;FONT-SIZE:10pt">Others have better hobbies like footbal and robbing half the world by distributing junk bonds .<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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