Vega Biofuels Packages Biochar for Retail Market
Jul 13, 2017
OTC Disclosure & News Service
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NORCROSS, Ga., July 13, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Vega Biofuels, Inc. (OTCPink:VGPR) announced today that as a result of interest from retail outlets, the Company has created a five gallon package of its Biochar product. The new packaging called “Big Bucket of Char” is designed specifically for the retail agricultural market.
Vega Biofuels recently announced that it has entered into a five year Reseller Agreement to provide the Company’s Biochar to legal cannabis growers in Alaska. Large growers will still purchase the product in super sacks that ship on pallets via common carrier. The new five gallon design can easily be shipped to smaller growers using UPS or FedEx. New legislation in Alaska allows every resident to grow cannabis plants in their own home. The new “Big Bucket of Char” provides these growers with the same super soil enhancement that the larger commercial growers use.
Biochar is a highly absorbent specially designed charcoal-type product primarily used as a soil enhancement for the agricultural industry to significantly increase crop yields. Biochar offers a powerfully simple solution to some of today’s most urgent environmental concerns. The production of Biochar for carbon sequestration in the soil is a carbon-negative process. Biochar is made from timber waste using torrefaction technology and the Company’s patent pending manufacturing machine. When put back into the soil, Biochar can stabilize the carbon in the soil for hundreds of years. The introduction of Biochar into soil is not like applying fertilizer; it is the beginning of a process. Most of the benefit is achieved through microbes and fungi. They colonize its massive surface area and integrate into the char and the surrounding soil, dramatically increasing the soil’s ability to nurture plant growth and provide increased crop yield.
The first production run of the Company’s “Big Bucket of Char” product will be shipped to Anchorage to be marketed to growers throughout the State of Alaska. In addition, Vega is redesigning its website to provide small growers from all over the world the ability to order the product directly from the Company.
“This is an area that we have been studying for some time,” stated Michael K. Molen, Chairman/CEO of Vega Biofuels, Inc. “We think there is a large market for smaller amounts of our Biochar product. We are also in discussions with retail chains about carrying the new ‘Big Bucket of Char.’ We are planning to showcase the new packaging in our marketing material starting this summer. This is not just for the cannabis market. When mixed with normal soil, our Biochar product provides the perfect environment for any agricultural crop. Biochar holds valuable nutrients in the soil instead of washing them away when watering, and then releases the nutrients as the plant grows, thus increasing the plant’s yield. Flowers and indoor plants can also benefit from our Biochar product. Our goal is to place our ‘Big Bucket of Char’ product in big box and garden stores throughout the country and online.”
Biochar can improve water quality, reduce soil emissions of greenhouse gases, reduce nutrient leaching, reduce soil acidity, and reduce irrigation and fertilizer requirements. Biochar was also found under certain circumstances to induce plant systemic responses to foliar fungal diseases and to improve plant responses to diseases caused by soil-borne pathogens. The various impacts of Biochar can be dependent on the properties of the Biochar, as well as the amount applied. Biochar impact may depend on regional conditions including soil type, soil condition (depleted or healthy), temperature, and humidity. Modest additions of Biochar to soil reduces nitrous oxide N2O emissions by up to 80% and eliminates methane emissions, which are both more potent greenhouse gases than CO2.
