Vega Biofuels : to Add Biochar Powder to its Products to Be Sold on Amazon

Vega Biofuels to Add Biochar Powder to its Products to Be Sold on Amazon

Demand Coming From Hydroponic Grow Facilities

Norcross, Georgia - January 10, 2018, Vega Biofuels, Inc. (OTCPink: VGPR) announced today that as a result of interest from hydroponic growers, the Company has created a Biochar Powder product that will be sold through the Company's recently announced agreement with Amazon to market Vega's products on its website, amazon.com. The Company is currently designing the Biochar Powder packaging and plans to have it available online during the first quarter of 2018.

Vega Biofuels recently announced that it has entered into a Reseller Agreement to provide the Company's Biochar product to legal cannabis growers. The Reseller Agreement will also cover the Company's new Biochar Powder product. By also making our products available on Amazon, growers from all over the world will have access to the same super soil enhancement that the larger commercial growers currently 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.

"This move is a direct result of requests that we've received from hydroponic growers," stated Michael K. Molen, Chairman/CEO of Vega Biofuels, Inc. "Our Biochar Powder works in water the same way as our other Biochar products. The Biochar Powder will be sold in smaller bags than our other products. We will add the Powder to the list of products currently marketed through reseller agreements and we are proud to have our Biochar products sold through Amazon."

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 upto 80% and eliminates methane emissions, which are both more potent greenhouse gases than CO2.

About Vega Biofuels, Inc. (OTCPink: VGPR):

Vega Biofuels, Inc. is a cutting-edge energy company that manufactures and markets a renewable energy product called Bio-Coal and a soil enhancement called Biochar, both made from timber waste using unique technology called torrefaction. Torrefaction is the treatment of biomass at high temperatures under low oxygen conditions. For more information, please visit our website at vegabiofuels.com.

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