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Wood vinegar: The product that can earn charcoal makers more
Sep 25, 2020
What you need to know:
The non-water component of wood vinegar consists of wood tars, acetic acid, methanol, acetone and other chemicals. Wood vinegar improves fruit quality and increases their sugar content, flavour and colour. Seeds sprout faster when soaked in wood vinegar first. Husks of other crops such as coffee, coconuts as well as maize cobs and wheat straws can produce briquettes and wood vinegar. Studies show that in poultry, it eliminates salmonella bacteria responsible for gastrointestinal diseases in chickens improving egg-laying performance and hatching efficiency.
A key value addition product of modern charcoal production is wood vinegar. This is a liquid substance produced when smoke from the burning wood condenses via a metal chimney fixed on the kiln.
The non-water component of wood vinegar consists of wood tars, acetic acid, methanol, acetone and other chemicals.
It has various uses including as an organic pesticide, fertiliser and animal feeds additive. It is non-toxic and bio-degradable, thus its use in agriculture reduces the environmental pollution and health problems associated with fossil-derived pesticides.
Once the world’s preferred pesticide, wood vinegar was overtaken by synthetic ones from the petro-chemical industry. However, with the ever-growing demand for healthy living, it is making a comeback.
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