PEKO-PE STOVE
Apr 24, 2005
SCIENTISTS at Nyabyeya Forestry College have developed an effective stove for use mainly in refugees and internally displaced people’s Camps.
By Kikonyogo Ngatya
SCIENTISTS at Nyabyeya Forestry College have developed an effective stove for use mainly in refugees and internally displaced people’s Camps.
The stove, named peko-pe can cook a meal using paper, dry grass or sawdust, tree chips and banana peels.
Peko-pe is one of the wood-saving technologies that have been developed with support of the Norwegian Development Agency.
The stove is one of the innovations to reduce forestry destruction. More than 90% of Ugandans use wood fuel for cooking. Rural based industries also use wood for heating purposes.
Dr Wilson Kasolo, the college principal said the stove contains two metal sheets and an outer shell. The inner shell has small air inlets. The outer shell has air inlets at the bottom.
“It is smoke free,†Richard Kisakye, a biomass resources centre manager, said.
The stove would greatly reduce environmental destruction because it uses simple materials.
“The challenge is to avail the stove country wide,†Kasolo said.
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SCIENTISTS at Nyabyeya Forestry College have developed an effective stove for use mainly in refugees and internally displaced people’s Camps.
The stove, named peko-pe can cook a meal using paper, dry grass or sawdust, tree chips and banana peels.
Peko-pe is one of the wood-saving technologies that have been developed with support of the Norwegian Development Agency.
The stove is one of the innovations to reduce forestry destruction. More than 90% of Ugandans use wood fuel for cooking. Rural based industries also use wood for heating purposes.
Dr Wilson Kasolo, the college principal said the stove contains two metal sheets and an outer shell. The inner shell has small air inlets. The outer shell has air inlets at the bottom.
“It is smoke free,†Richard Kisakye, a biomass resources centre manager, said.
The stove would greatly reduce environmental destruction because it uses simple materials.
“The challenge is to avail the stove country wide,†Kasolo said.
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