[Terrapreta] Wollongbar research

[Michael Bailes]

This is the research BEST Energies (Australia)
co-funded.<http://biopact.com/2007/06/research-confirms-biochar-in-soils.html>


<http://biopact.com/2007/06/research-confirms-biochar-in-soils.html>

Research confirms biochar in soils boosts crop
yields<http://biopact.com/2007/06/research-confirms-biochar-in-soils.html>
 By Biopact team(Biopact team)
Created by pre-Columbian populations thousands of years ago through the
addition of charred organic matter, *terra preta* continues to be
staggeringly productive despite being intensively cultivated. BEST Energies
Australia first began *...*
 biopact - http://biopact.com/ <http://biopact.com/>
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Department of Primary Industries' (DPI) Wollongbar Agricultural
Institute<http://www.ricecrc.org/reader/wollongbar>show that crops
grown on agrichar-improved soils received a major boost. The
findings come at a time when carbon- negative bioenergy is becoming one of
the most widely debated topics in the renewable energy and climate change
community.

The Australian trials of 'agrichar' or 'biochar' have doubled and, in one
case, tripled crop growth when applied at the rate of 10 tonnes per hectare.
The technique of storing agrichar in soils is now seen as a potential
saviour to restore fertility to depleted or nutrient-poor soils (especially
in the tropics), and as a

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michael
(always peccable, sometimes sapient)
"You can fix all the world's problems in a garden. . . .
Most people don't know that"
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http://www.blog.thesietch.org/wp-content/permaculture.swf
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