Kenyan farmers use cotton by-product for fuel

13/06/2019
More than 1,200 farmers in Kenya are using a by-product of the cotton-making process as fuel for water pumps used to irrigate crops.

Zaynagro Industries makes the biofuel by crushing cotton seeds left over as waste after ginning, and began using it in its cotton ginning factory in 2011, according to a report by Reuters.

“With increased production, we now use it for our trucks, sell it to the United Nations to run some of their buses and also to local farmers for irrigation,” said Taher Zavery, managing director of Zaynagro Industries.