Converting Agro-Waste into Biochar: Improving Soil Fertility and Productivity in ASAL Ecosystems

Key Messages Recycling rice-husk waste into biochar may increase soil nitrogen and phosphorus availability. Biochar has the potential to improve soil productivity and agronomic yield and nutritional quality of D. lablab in rotational farming with cereals in Mwea and Bura. Biochar may reduce salt-toxicity as proved with Bura soil.