Banas Dairy to invest Rs 32cr in four biogas plants
TNN | Mar 10, 2019, 04:00 ISTPalanpur: Banas Dairy will be setting up four biogas plants at the total cost of Rs 32 crore. Dairy chairman Shankar Chaudhary will lay the foundation stone for the four biogas plants on Monday at Ratnapura (Bhiladi), Dama Semen Station (Deesa), Thavar (Dhanera) and Danta Chilling Centre in Banaskantha.
Energy is integral part dairy industry and as population grows the demand for energy grows with it the procurement cost also rises, said a Banas Dairy official.
“The problem is in meeting the energy needs without destroying the environment. So we have st up these biogas plants which are environmentally safe,” he added
Banas Dairy is the Asia’s largest dairy that produces 60 lakh litres of milk per day. With such rich cattle wealth the inputs for biogas — dung — is available in plenty.
The plants with energy generation capacity of 2,000 cubic metre will also result in farmers and cattle growers seeing rapid rise in their earnings.
Banaskantha biogas plants will require 1.6lakh kg of dung everyday. Farmers will be paid for the dung which was earlier discarded.
Energy is integral part dairy industry and as population grows the demand for energy grows with it the procurement cost also rises, said a Banas Dairy official.
“The problem is in meeting the energy needs without destroying the environment. So we have st up these biogas plants which are environmentally safe,” he added
Banas Dairy is the Asia’s largest dairy that produces 60 lakh litres of milk per day. With such rich cattle wealth the inputs for biogas — dung — is available in plenty.
The plants with energy generation capacity of 2,000 cubic metre will also result in farmers and cattle growers seeing rapid rise in their earnings.
Banaskantha biogas plants will require 1.6lakh kg of dung everyday. Farmers will be paid for the dung which was earlier discarded.
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