Environmental research

The project aims at developing the technology to produce charcoal using sugar cane trash so as to increase income of growers, reduce degradation of forests, and promote wide scale dissemination to both other growers in the cooperative and to other areas which produce sugar cane such as Jimma and Matahara. Specifically, the project envisages to increase the income of small growers that will participate in implementing this project; reduce the need for deforestation by developing cost effective marketable alternatives to using wood for charcoal; develop a training video for users; determine if the findings from the assessment are achievable with broader dissemination; and refine cost benefit date (i.e., determine price for which charcoal can be sold) and best practice of for equipment needs ownership for wide scale implementation.

Ethiopia