Friday, January 23, 2009

Encourage rural folks to use biogas widely

Myanmar engages in agricultural farming and livestock farming on a large scale. Agriculture and livestock farming are the main businesses of rural people, who make Electric power supply is part of the drive for rural development. Now, generation of electric power from biogas has proved successful in rural areas.
Biogas can be extracted from animal waste. Gases that can be extracted from animal dung are methane, carbon dioxide, nitric oxide, ammonia and carbon monoxide and they can be generated into electric power.
Now, innovation has been carried out to build biogas digesters for supply of electric power in rural areas. Farmers can use biogas to generate electric power, and to substitute firewood. In the process, byproducts can be used as organic fertilizer.
Apart from small-scale biogas digesters for houses, large biogas digesters can be built to supply electric power to the whole village. Biogas can be produced from animal wastes such as cow dung, pig dung, chicken and goat droppings. The dung of five to seven cattle, or pigs, buffalos and goats is enough to produce electricity through biogas for a household.
If biogas is extracted from animal wastes extensively, rural areas can get sufficient electricity and many other benefits at low costs. Therefore, rural residents should use biogas on a wider scale for multipurpose benefits.

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