Millar Institute for Transdisciplinary and Development Studies a well-known research institution operating in the Upper East Region has organized a dialogue conference that brought together a working group of renewable energy practitioners and policy actors to share information and make inputs into the ongoing organic briquettes production policy alternatives to regulate wood fuels in Ghana.
The dialogue conference saw partners actively participate by asking interesting questions on the way forward, especially with the new grass-to-charcoal innovation which has come as a remedy to eliminate bushfire burning and even felling of resourceful trees such as shea nuts trees for the production of wood charcoal in the northern part of Ghana.
Meanwhile, addressing participants at the dialogue conference on Friday, November 25, 2022, at the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Conference Hall, Millar Institute for Transdisciplinary and Development Student (MITDS) Prof. David Millar, the originator of the grass charcoal and grass brown paper innovation said, at this level, they are two major areas and one is to have a business offtake to a business enterprise, a business man or business entrepreneur who would pick it and upscale it and aside that, the impact will be bigger than what we have done so far. So, that business component is yet to come on board”.
“The second one is the policy because there has to be some policy alternative to support this initiative”.
Prof. Millar has done an extensive study on the use of organic material to make breakers and it has come out clear that the experiences internationally in Africa and in West Africa so far have been on assorted farm buy products, not on grasses. We couldn’t find a single experience on the use of grass in making breakers within the subregion and not in Africa. So that’s something very unique and we think that if we want to upscale its uniqueness we need the policy support for that. Prof. Millar stressed
However, the Forest and Farm Producer Organizations (FFPO’s) trained by the Millar Institute on Organic briquettes production technology also participated in the dialogue conference as they share their experiences and lessons learned.
Source: Apexnewsgh.com/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stepehen/Ghana
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