BSS, Rangpur :
Experts at a day-long orientation meeting here on Monday stressed for increasing production and use of bio-gas as alternative fuel to substantially save environment and resolve the energy problem in the country.
The Department of Youth Development (DYD) organised the meeting under the Innovative Management of Resources for Poverty Alleviation through Comprehensive Technology (IMPACT) project (Phase-II) at Pochakandor Non-government Primary School under Pirganj upazila.
With Pirganj Upazila Youth Development Officer Md. Abul Kalam Azad Khan in the chair, Deputy Director of the district Department of Youth Development Azizur Rahman Talukder attended the meeting as the chief guest.
Bio-gas Plant Engineer of the IMPACT project (Phase-II) for Pirganj upazila Mahfuzur Rahman, Biogas Plant Community Supervisor Khalilur Rahman and Credit Supervisors Sadekur Rahman and Rawshan Ali Mandal addressed as resource persons.
The meeting was arranged to inform the common villagers on the essence of production and utilisation of renewable energy through creating public awareness about setting up of domestic bio-gas plants for reaping multidimensional benefits.
Twenty-five rural males and females participated in the meeting to acquire knowledge on the technologies for setting up of bio-gas plants to produce alternative fuel using cow-dung, market wastes, human excreta, poultry wastes, chicken litter and garbage.
The resource persons narrated the technologies for setting up of bio-gas plants in the homesteads to produce low-cost alternative energy through anaerobic fermentation of decomposed materials like cow-dung, human excreta, poultry wastes and garbage.
They said bio-gas can be used for cooking food as well as producing electricity to change lifestyle in remote areas through lighting electric bulbs, operating radio, fan and television and the slurry as compost fertilisers to improve soil health and increase crop production.
The chief guest narrated tremendous benefits from production of bio-gas through setting up of bio-gas plants in homesteads and asked the participants for availing the government assistance to increase output of the low-cost alternate fuel.
At the end, the chief guest distributed Taka 5,000 among each of the twenty-five participants as grants under the IMPACT project (Phase-II) to encourage them in setting up of bio-gas plants in their homesteads.
Experts at a day-long orientation meeting here on Monday stressed for increasing production and use of bio-gas as alternative fuel to substantially save environment and resolve the energy problem in the country.
The Department of Youth Development (DYD) organised the meeting under the Innovative Management of Resources for Poverty Alleviation through Comprehensive Technology (IMPACT) project (Phase-II) at Pochakandor Non-government Primary School under Pirganj upazila.
With Pirganj Upazila Youth Development Officer Md. Abul Kalam Azad Khan in the chair, Deputy Director of the district Department of Youth Development Azizur Rahman Talukder attended the meeting as the chief guest.
Bio-gas Plant Engineer of the IMPACT project (Phase-II) for Pirganj upazila Mahfuzur Rahman, Biogas Plant Community Supervisor Khalilur Rahman and Credit Supervisors Sadekur Rahman and Rawshan Ali Mandal addressed as resource persons.
The meeting was arranged to inform the common villagers on the essence of production and utilisation of renewable energy through creating public awareness about setting up of domestic bio-gas plants for reaping multidimensional benefits.
Twenty-five rural males and females participated in the meeting to acquire knowledge on the technologies for setting up of bio-gas plants to produce alternative fuel using cow-dung, market wastes, human excreta, poultry wastes, chicken litter and garbage.
The resource persons narrated the technologies for setting up of bio-gas plants in the homesteads to produce low-cost alternative energy through anaerobic fermentation of decomposed materials like cow-dung, human excreta, poultry wastes and garbage.
They said bio-gas can be used for cooking food as well as producing electricity to change lifestyle in remote areas through lighting electric bulbs, operating radio, fan and television and the slurry as compost fertilisers to improve soil health and increase crop production.
The chief guest narrated tremendous benefits from production of bio-gas through setting up of bio-gas plants in homesteads and asked the participants for availing the government assistance to increase output of the low-cost alternate fuel.
At the end, the chief guest distributed Taka 5,000 among each of the twenty-five participants as grants under the IMPACT project (Phase-II) to encourage them in setting up of bio-gas plants in their homesteads.
