Low thermal and combustion efficiency - consuming excessive fuels

Poor combustion efficiency – creating indoor pollution

Traditional stoves require effort by users to blow air for the combustion to get fire started which is the main cause of respiratory illness, eye, skin irritation, tuberculosis, etc.

Poor ventilation in rural houses, combined with indoor air pollution results in health hazards for whole family.

Families - mostly women and children - must spend 6-7 hours per week procuring biomass fuel.

Need for the cheap and free fuel for cooking is a necessarily for the innocent villager, which makes very hard for the implement of the Forest laws to keep forests healthy.

CO2 emissions is greater than local biomass can absorb, thus causing the increase of CO2 in the atmosphere.

Fuel load is not optimized, promoting more use of wood which in return adds to their economical conditions and also exacerbating the effect of deforestation and CO2 emissions.

Current program to introduce more energy-efficient cooking stove is doing little to reduce the demand for firewood.