{"id":593,"date":"2012-08-18T19:16:33","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T05:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/farmblog\/?p=593"},"modified":"2012-08-19T17:41:21","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T03:41:21","slug":"more-tea-biochar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/farmblog\/2012\/08\/more-tea-biochar\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Tea &#038; Biochar in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More about growing tea with biochar in Sri Lanka, from an eariler comment on this blog.<\/p>\n<p>1. &#8220;Biochar: Can it put the tea industry back in the black?&#8221;, Dr. J.C. Krishnaratne, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sundaytimes.lk\/120624\/business-times\/biochar-can-it-put-the-tea-industry-back-in-the-black-3850.html\">http:\/\/www.sundaytimes.lk\/120624\/business-times\/biochar-can-it-put-the-tea-industry-back-in-the-black-3850.html<\/a><br \/>\nIn summary, it says that the Sri Lanka tea fields are in bad shape due to erosion and long-term overuse of chemical fertilizers, that biochar can and should help, and that char could be made out of the <em>Gliricidia<\/em> trees that are already quite widespread and grow well in that region.<\/p>\n<p>2. A response to the above article by Hemal de Silva, <a href=\"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/52700813\/Biochar.pdf\">http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/52700813\/Biochar.pdf<\/a><br \/>\nIn summary, he says that while biochar is certainly good for tea soils and yields, the economic situation is more complicated, lack of re-investment money means biochar may not be sufficient to solve the industry&#8217;s money-losing problems, by itself. He suggests that looking at particular tree species, <em>Pentadesma butyracea<\/em> and <em>Garcinia\u00a0indica<\/em> (Kokum) might provide a better economic result.<\/p>\n<p>I was unaware of the economic picture and have never heard of these tree species, so it&#8217;s very interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More about growing tea with biochar in Sri Lanka, from an eariler comment on this blog. 1. &#8220;Biochar: Can it put the tea industry back in the black?&#8221;, Dr. J.C. Krishnaratne, http:\/\/www.sundaytimes.lk\/120624\/business-times\/biochar-can-it-put-the-tea-industry-back-in-the-black-3850.html In summary, it says that the Sri Lanka tea fields are in bad shape due to erosion and long-term overuse of chemical fertilizers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biochar","category-tea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/farmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/farmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/farmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/farmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/farmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/farmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/farmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/farmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/farmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/farmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}