Nelly Bassily | August 15, 2011
One of our stories this week concerns using crop by-products as fuel. The story was about rice husks – but as this script shows, other crop by-products can also be used as fuel. This script describes how to make charcoal briquettes from banana peels. A women’s group in Uganda developed this alternative fuel, as they grow an abundance of plantain and bananas. This idea could save many trees.
Read the full script: http://farmradio.org/english/radio-scripts/76-5script_en.asp