Charcoal kilns in southern Vietnam

Whilst caving in Dong Nai province in southern Vietnam in Feb 2014, I saw this small scale charcoal industry. Dong Nai is the province just to the northeast of Ho Chi Minh City.
Many people in the region use charcoal for cooking, especially for heating pots of water and for grilling meat.

The kilns are inside the attap roofed building

 

Wood is put into the kiln and it is then heated and turns into charcoal. It is a hot and smokey process.
This area has many cashew trees as well as other fruit trees, so these are probably used when older.

The smoke is coming out from the bottom, not from the top

there is no smoke from the chimney on the roof

I don't know why this kiln is covered up

 

 

 I tried to find out more about this charcoal industry but didn't find much. However I did find an interesting article on a village in another part of this province, where lepers are involved with the charcoal industry, charcoal kilns help lepers.........

 

 

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