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More Maendeleo Stoves by Mrs G Zzioki

Boiling Point
Front cover of Boiling Point issue 24
Issue 24 (1991) Solar Energy
ArticleMore Maendeleo Stoves
AuthorMrs H Zzioki?
Machakos District is one of the 6 districts which make up Eastern Province of Kenya with an estimated population of 2 million people and 187,334 farm families. It has an area of 14,183 km², with an agricultural potential ranging from high potential, basically found in hilly masses, to low agricultural potential found in lowlands.

The District experiences a bimodal rainfall regime whereby the short rains (October to December) are usually more reliable than the long rains (March to July). The average annual rainfall is about 800 mm.

The District area which consists of forests is only about 3% of the total. The rate at which forests are diminishing in Machakos is very high compared to the rate of planting new trees. Forests are cleared to create a suitable environment for the ever increasing population, either small towns or farmland.

The women within the district travel a long distance in search of fuelwood. This consumes a lot of precious time that would have been used for doing other productive activities such as fanning. Appropriate technology introduced the improved stove as a better solution to saving fuelwood. This will assist in fuelwood saving and reduce the burden of collecting fuelwood by a half and also save money.

The extension message on awareness of fuelwood saving stoves is passed on at meetings with women's groups, field days, demonstrations and home visits etc.

The adoption of the Maendeleo stoves in the District is taking up very well, as all the 10 Divisions have carried out demonstrations on the stoves. In the short time since the programme started, that is from the period of December '91, to date the District has been able to disseminate 570 stoves and there is a pending order for about 500 liners. .
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[top] [end]Contents: Boiling Point 24: Solar Energy

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BP24: The History of Photovoltaic Solar Cells - BP24: Everybody's Solar Water Heater - BP24: Silicon Solar Cell - BP24: Cost per KWh of Photovoltaic Solar Energy - BP24: Simple, Communal, Hot Water Stove - BP24: Should Charcoal Fuel Stoves be promoted - BP24: More Charcoal by traditional methods - BP24: Biomass Briquetting - BP24: Fuelwood Stoves in Zanzibar - BP24: The economic value of trees - BP24: More Maendeleo Stoves - BP24: Stove Profiles - Nada Chulha

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