Burning rice for fuel

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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
Date
1986
Language
en
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News Item
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CTA. 1986. Burning rice for fuel. Spore 1. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Permanent link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10568/44417
Internet URL: http://collections.infocollections.org/ukedu/en/d/Jcta01e/
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Engineers at the Indian Institute of Technology in NewDelhi have come up with plans to use hard cakes of rice husk costing the equivalent of 12 (US) cents each as cooking fuel. An experiment in Nepal has shown that two of these cakes can provide...
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Engineers at the Indian Institute of Technology in NewDelhi have come up with plans to use hard cakes of rice husk costing the equivalent of 12 (US) cents each as cooking fuel. An experiment in Nepal has shown that two of these cakes can provide enough heat to cook two meals for six persons. According to Mr Diwerak Chand, who is in charge of the programme, the cakes produce heat but very little smoke and pollution. They are very easy to light and their ashes can be used to clean tools. A production plant will be built in Kathmandu at a cost of US $ 173,000.
Subjects
RURAL DYNAMICS;
Countries
NEPAL
Regions
SOUTH ASIA; ASIA
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