I request you to sharre me your experience and knowledge.

Wassie Haile (PhD)

Hello Renaldo, I worked on humic substances for a long time and now I switched to biomasses for biofuel production. I'm also dealing with char and biochar as useful tools for environmental remediation and for carbon sequestration into soils. Here you find a link to my webpages to understand my activity and my papers: http://sites.google.com/site/contepellegrino/. But, in what are you interested about biochar research? What do you need to know?

I've completed some trials comparing the effects of biochar and other organic amendments on selected soil properties. Biochar didnt perform so great , but i guess its effect is derived from improved physical and biological properties , while i looked at more chemical properties

I have been involved in some work on the interactive effect of biochar and mycorhizza root colonisation in tomato production. there were some significant effect of biochar influencing mycorhizza root colonisation as well as root growth. I am now intending to investigate nutrient management in smallholder horticulture using biochar and vermicompost in Zimbabwe for my PHD. I intent to use Lantana camara biomass which has become very invasive in arable and non-arable lands in most communal areas for the production of biochar. For vermicompost I intend to test a different agricultural biomasses. However I am still busy trying to secure the research funds and tuition fees. I have attached my PHD synopsis if there is anyone with similar interest lets collaborate for joint research and publications

rencently one paper punblishded in SBB and reported the limited effect of biochar on filed crop production and soil condition by three years field experiment,so,biochar we need find and wait more time in its real efficency on nature

Biochar has been found to retain carbon in soil for longer period and release the nutrients slowly over a long period of time.

Well, biochar from cattle dung has been found capable of storing carbon for 2-3 years which is quite less in comparision to other sources like crop residue which can lead even up to 20-30 years

Hello Renaldo, You can join the Biochar Association in linked in. You can get some more information. Wishes