Jima, Niger State9.032°N 5.796°E
Biochar Solutions Africa
Carbon solutionsrooted inAfrican soil.
Regenerating African soils. Removing carbon. Creating rural prosperity.
01Who we are
An integrated climate-smart agriculture and carbon-removal enterprise, turning agricultural residues into high-quality biochar, regenerative soil products, renewable process energy and measurable climate value.
We deploy efficient, low-emission pyrolysis systems to convert rice husks and straw, maize cobs and stalks, and other responsibly sourced biomass residues into stable, carbon-rich products.
The circular production model reduces open-field burning and uncontrolled biomass decomposition while improving soil productivity, strengthening agricultural resilience and creating new income opportunities across rural value chains.
- 01Regenerating African soils
- 02Removing carbon
- 03Creating rural prosperity
02What it is
Not ash.
Charcoal that will
never burn again.
Heat plant matter to around 500°C with almost no oxygen and it cannot catch fire. Instead it breaks down. This is pyrolysis: it drives off water and volatile gases and leaves behind a black, brittle skeleton of almost pure carbon.
Rice husk, corn cob, wood residue: waste that is normally burned in the open field or left to rot, releasing its carbon back into the air within a season. Pyrolysed instead, that same carbon becomes something a farmer can carry into a paddy in a plastic bowl.
Raked to cool and dry, bagged, then carried into the field. The same material, ten kilometres and one week apart.
03Why it works
One gram.
Hundreds of square metres
of surface.
Magnified far enough, a single grain of biochar is the reason it works. Pyrolysis leaves behind the plant's own vascular architecture as a labyrinth of interconnected voids. Macropores wide enough to hold water. Micropores fine enough to lock carbon away from the microbes that would otherwise consume it.
Water in the pore network, released slowly back to roots through dry spells.
Soil microbes, sheltered inside the structure where they build nutrient cycling.
Acidity, which matters enormously in the degraded, acidic soils common across the region.
Biochar pore structure, modelled
04Into the ground
Broadcast by hand,
bowl by bowl.
No machinery, no proprietary applicator. Char is carried into the paddy in whatever will hold it: a basin, a bucket, a cooking bowl. It is scattered by the people who farm the plot. This is what adoption actually looks like.
Biochar is not a fertiliser and does not behave like one. It is a soil amendment: it improves what the soil can hold and how it holds it, so that water and nutrients already present stop washing straight through.
The company's stated field experience is a yield improvement of up to 25%, most pronounced in the degraded and acidic soils where conventional inputs give the least return.
05How long it stays
1,000years
Compost gives soil a good year and is gone. Biochar is different: pyrolysis rearranges the carbon into aromatic rings that soil microbes cannot easily take apart. What goes into the ground is still there, still holding water and nutrients, on a timescale measured in centuries.
That permanence is the whole basis of the carbon claim. Carbon captured by a rice plant this season would return to the atmosphere within a year or two if the husk were simply burned or left to rot. Turned to char and worked into the field, it stops moving.
Each band, one year. Every hundredth marked
06Field log
Every application,
logged where it happened.
These frames are unretouched, straight from the field team's phones. The coordinate stamps are theirs, not ours. Three sites in Niger State, all recorded on 3 August 2026.
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07Community
Adoption is not a sale.
It is a village deciding.
Biochar only works at scale if the people who farm the land choose it, teach it to each other, and keep using it after the vehicles leave. We build inclusive feedstock supply chains with farmers, cooperatives, aggregators, processors, research institutions and public agencies.
08Our integrated solutions
Our integrated
solutions.
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Agricultural Biochar and Soil Products
Fit-for-purpose biochar and biochar-based soil amendments.
Designed to improve soil structure, water retention, nutrient-use efficiency, microbial activity and long-term soil health, particularly in the degraded, acidic, sandy and drought-prone soils that limit yield across much of the continent.
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Carbon Removal and Climate Finance
Carbon-removal projects that can be audited, not asserted.
Structured on feedstock traceability, lifecycle assessment, and digital monitoring, reporting and verification, aligned with recognised international carbon-crediting methodologies.
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Waste-to-Value Infrastructure
Decentralised and industrial-scale biomass conversion.
Productive alternatives to residue burning that reduce waste-management pressure and recover useful thermal energy and other valuable co-products, including clean-burning briquettes drawn from the same feedstock stream.
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Farmer and Community Partnerships
Inclusive feedstock supply chains, built with the people in them.
Work alongside farmers, cooperatives, aggregators, processors, research institutions and public agencies to run field demonstrations, transfer technique, and expand adoption of regenerative practice. Capacity that stays after we leave.
09Our impact proposition
What this
is for.
- 01Restore degraded soils and enhance agricultural productivity
- 02Improve soil water retention and resilience to drought
- 03Reduce residue burning, smoke pollution and greenhouse-gas emissions
- 04Secure durable atmospheric carbon removal and storage
- 05Create green employment and additional income for rural communities
- 06Support climate-smart agriculture, circular economy and food security
- 07Advance Africa's contribution to the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals
10From residues to regenerative value
Biochar Solutions Africa connects agriculture, industrial innovation and climate finance through a balanced multi-product business model. Our ambition is to establish a trusted African platform for technically sound biochar production, commercially viable soil solutions and high-integrity carbon removal, beginning in Nigeria and expanding across the continent.
Partner
with us.
We welcome collaboration with farmers, agro-processors, governments, research institutions, development-finance organisations, carbon-market participants, technology providers and impact investors.
- Farmers and cooperatives
- Agro-processors and aggregators
- Governments and public agencies
- Research institutions
- Development-finance organisations
- Carbon-market participants
- Technology providers
- Impact investors