[Stoves] Billion Stoves Program

[adkarve]

Deart Mr. Torrijos,
a cleanly cooking stove does not have to be costly. We are already marketing
stoves costing U.S.$7 and above. Depending on the market, they can be mass
produced in a factory or produced locally by village artisans.  What people
had until now been attempting was to produce a stove that would burn sticks,
corn shanks, dung, cotton stalks, cardboard, roots of crop plants, charcoal,
and many other things, all in one and the same stove. We gave up such
attempts and developed fuel specific stoves. Selling the specific processed
fuel then becomes a continuous business, even after the market for the
stoves gets saturated. We have a big training programme that trains artisans
in fabricating our stoves and rural entrepreneurs in producing processed
fuels (wood chips, briquettes made from torrefied light biomass, char
briquettes from light biomass, etc.). At least 150 village artisans and
entrepreneurs have established rural businesses based on our technologies.
Currently we are aiming at achieving the fugure of 1 million stoves in the
next three years.
Yours
A.D.Karve
----- Original Message -----
From: cornelio torrijos <cctorrijos at gmail.com>
To: Discussion of biomass cooking stoves <stoves at listserv.repp.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2007 2:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Stoves] Billion Stoves Program


> Hello Dr. N. Sai Bhaskar Reddy,
>
> Your apparently successful pilot project of improving stoves in several
> villages in India with perhaps several hundred families starting to use
> improve stove is encouraging. But it seems logical that your next problem
is
> scaling up successfully.
>
> You wrote: "It is estimated that India alone requires about 120 million
> stoves." This magnitude brings the improved stove adoption problem into
the
> realm of mass marketing.
>
> But how to succeed without the funds needed to communicate and persuade
> dispersed potential users?
>
> I am certain that the creative energies and talents of marketing and
> advertising students in India can find effective solutions.
>
> Cornel
>
>
>
>
> On 3/9/07, Saibhaskar Nakka <saibhaskarnakka at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dear All,
> >
> > The idea of Dr. Tom Reed's Billion Stoves Program is very challenging
and
> > an
> > urgent task to mitigate Global Warming / Climate change or variability /
> > sustainable agriculture / biomass conservation and apart from Women and
> > Children health issues. It is observed that due to increasing fuel
prices
> > and shortage of electricity there is growing demand for biomass and
> > charcoal
> > from urban areas and industries, which we have seen happening presently
in
> > our villages.
> >
> > Regarding achieving the Billion Stoves Program, it is a huge task, if we
> > want to achieve sustainability in adoptation of efficient stoves.
Through
> > grant or subsidy we could provide efficient stoves, but from earlier
> > experiences such projects were a great failure and people resorted back
to
> > their own traditional stoves. Here in this blog (includes two posters),
I
> > am
> > sharing our project experience with community where 70% families in two
> > villages have adapted efficient stoves. PARTICIPATORY PROCESSES IN
> > COMMUNITY
> > ADAPTATION OF EFFICIENT STOVES
> > <http://e-adptstoves.blogspot.com/>  http://e-adptstoves.blogspot.com/
> >
> > Hoping this experience will be useful for designing a practical  plan
for
> > achieving Billion Stoves Program. It is estimated that India alone
> > requires
> > about 120 million stoves.
> >
> > With Regards,
> >
> >
> > Dr. N. Sai Bhaskar Reddy
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