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Beehive Charcoal Briquettes: Clean Cooking Fuel for Rural Households


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Cooking is the major energy-intensive activity in many households of rural India1. A significant number of rural households still depend on biomass for cooking fuel due to easy access, sociopolitical situation, age-old cultural practice and low income2.
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Sandip Mandal
ICAR-Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Nabibagh, Bhopal 462 038, India

Abstract


Cooking is the major energy-intensive activity in many households of rural India1. A significant number of rural households still depend on biomass for cooking fuel due to easy access, sociopolitical situation, age-old cultural practice and low income2.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv118%2Fi11%2F1641-1642