Detail:

Dried mango leaves used as fuel in remote areas when it is difficult to collect fuel wood. Villagers of Pirgunj in the Malda district of West Bengal preserve mango leaves to be used as fuel at times when other conventional sources are exhausted. The Malda district is known to be a mango belt. But other trees that are conventional sources of fuel wood are limited in number. People in remote areas of the district find it difficult to collect fuel wood. They have thus come up with a solution to preserve mango leaves, to be used as fuel at times when other conventional sources are exhausted.They collect mango leaves and spread them in open courtyards for sun drying for two or three days. The dried leaves are heaped in an elevated area of the courtyard and bamboo sticks are stacked around the heap to protect it from wind and rain. Five or six layers of wheat straw are kept on the top of the heap to avoid rainwater getting into it. This process keeps the moisture content static for up to three months and takes care of fuel requirement during the monsoon season.Collect mango leaves and spread them in open courtyards for sun drying for two or three days.Heap the dried leaves in an elevated area of the courtyard and stack bamboo sticks around the heap to protect it from wind and rain. Keep five or six layers of wheat straw on the top of the heap to avoid rainwater getting into it.

Knowledge Provider / Innovator:
Agro-Ecological Zone: Bengal and Assam plains, hot subhumid (moist) to humid (inclusion of perhumid) eco-subregion (15.1)
Address: Pirgunj
District: Malda
State: West Bengal
PIN Code 732102

Crop: Mango
Crop Family: Mangiferae
Crop Scientific Name: (Mangiferaindica
Crop Vernacular Name: Keri
Ingredients: The leaves of mango, bamboo sticks and wheat straw.

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PAS 1:

"Bioethanol production from leafy biomass of mango (mangiferaindica) involving naturally isolated and recombinant enzymes"
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