The U.S. researchers said that the part that people do not use coconut and mango can generate large amounts of electricity for rural communities in South Asia and Southeast Asia.
Many food crops have a department that hard and not edible. It also does not use those parts to livestock or manure on the fields.
Examples of this type of waste - called "pods in" - including almond shells, coconut shells and shell pistachio, mango seeds, olive seeds, plum seeds, shea nuts cherries.
The shells contain lignin, a chemical compound, with large concentrations. The lignin-rich product can be burned to create energy-rich gases. One can use that gas to produce electricity.
Home Science and Development Network reports that in the process of finding the area of production in many shells , the researchers realized that coconut accounted for 55 % of all agricultural products in pods around the world . This figure is 17 % for mangoes . Most coconuts are produced in South Asia and Southeast Asia - including Bangladesh , Laos , Malaysia , Thailand , Vietnam .
Tom Shearin , a systems analyst at the University of Kentucky in the U.S. , and colleagues found that energy from agricultural products in the pods can meet 30 % of electricity demand in Sri Lanka . Same rate in the Philippines , Indonesia and India respectively 25 % , 13 % and 3 % .
The use of non-edible parts of mango and coconut to produce electricity will not face opposition from experts because they do not compete with food crops , Shearin said.
Wais Kabir , chairman of Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute , said most agricultural waste of the country , including waste from non-edible products , have been used to produce bioenergy . However, he asserts that the amount of waste from agricultural products - such as coconut shells - not large enough to meet the long-term operation of power plants . Want to create a large enough source material for the power plant , people must plan their production in large scale .
