{"id":3690,"date":"2019-07-10T08:09:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T08:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3690"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:24","slug":"cotton-waste-biofuel-powers-farmers-to-fight-drought-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/10\/cotton-waste-biofuel-powers-farmers-to-fight-drought-in-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Cotton Waste Biofuel Powers Farmers To Fight Drought In Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>By The East African<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kenyan\nfarmer Abel Mutie Mathoka thought it must be a joke when he was told he could\nirrigate his drought-hit crops more cheaply, cleanly and efficiently using a\npump fueled by cotton waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Who\ncould believe it&#8217;s possible to make a fuel better than diesel from cotton\nseeds? I didn&#8217;t!&#8221; laughed Mathoka, crouching down to inspect the\nwatermelons on his 10-acre (four-hectare) shared plot in Ituri village in\nKenya&#8217;s southeast Kitui county. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/scienceandhealth\/Cotton-waste-biofuel-powers-farmers-to-fight-drought-in-Kenya\/3073694-5189190-6cny0wz\/index.html\">full\narticle<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/2456-2456-ekxxsk\/index.html\">The East\nAfrican<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By The East African Kenyan farmer Abel Mutie Mathoka thought it must be a joke when he was told he could irrigate his drought-hit crops more cheaply, cleanly and efficiently&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}