Fahd Rasul

Biochar for Agriculture in Pakistan

Escalating greenhouse gas emissions are influenced by anthropogenic activities and have taken climate change issues to global forums. Pressure on already stressed energy, water provision, and management infrastructure including flood risks has mounted. Soil degradation, alkalinity, wastewater and solids management, trace metals and nutrient deficient drylands lacking water holding capacity have emerged as growing problems for Pakistan’s economy. The increased pH of soils, contaminations of heavy metals, lack of waste treatment technology, unstable soil organic carbon and capacity of soils to exchange ions for the utilization by crop plants especially in dry land agriculture are notorious realities.