Biochar, a carbon rich material produced from biomass pyrolysis, chemically stabilizes carbon in soil via pie-pie interactions and functional groups, thus effectively sequestering carbon and mitigating climate change.
Biochar is a fine grained, carbon-rich, porous product remaining after plant biomass has been subjected to thermo chemical conversion process (pyrolysis) at temperatures about 350-600°C in an environment with little or no oxygen (Amonette and Joseph, 2009) .Biochar has the potential to mitigate global environmental change due to its ability to sequester carbon and soil for long time. Biochar amendment can help to restore soils by improving soil carbon status and their physical structure to create a favourable environment for soil microbial activity, which is essential for plan nutrient cycling.