In deal with Mexican firm, dairy board to supply 15,000 biogas plants in Gujarat, Maharashtra
There is no need for any government subsidy as the company will generate carbon credits from the project.
Meenesh Shah, chairman of NDDB, said the slurry from the biogas plants in households was collected at the Vasna GIDC, where organic manure is being produced and sold by a cooperative run by women. (Express file/Representational) The National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) signed an MoU with Mexico-based Sistema Bio on Friday for supplying 15,000 biogas plants to farmers in Surat, Kolhapur and Pune.
As per this agreement, farmers owning two or three cows or buffaloes will be given biomass plants at the subsidised rate of Rs 5,990. “The actual cost of these plants is around Rs 40,000. The company has made a good model where there is no need to provide any government subsidy. The company will generate carbon credits and use them,” said Meenesh Shah, chairman of NDDB after signing the agreement.
The NDDB had partnered with the same private firm for a pilot project at a village in Anand. “About 370 households with livestock were given biogas plants. Today each and every one of them is functional and saves Rs 1,200 as these families need not depend on wood or alternative fuels,” he said.
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