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PROJECT :
Construction of biogas digesters and vermicompost units in India - Hassan Project
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To encourage the diffusion of more than 500 small-scale bio-digesters among rural families in Hassan district – Karnataka region. The use of the biogas for cooking and compost produced in the digesters are one of the options to protect the forests by reducing the local dependence on firewood and thereby contributing to the fight against climate change.
In december 2009, the project was registered under Gold Standard, an international standard for qualitative Offsetting Carbone projects.
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PARTNERS : |
SKG Sangha - Non-governmental organization based in Kolar, in the State of Karnataka, South- Western India. SKG Sangha undertakes activities, experiments and research on renewable energies, collection of rain water, biological agriculture, employment creation and other sustainable development related topics. Since 1992, SKG Sangha has worked in the field of biogas and has installed the highest amount of family digesters in the world. |
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CONTEXT:
A high proportion of Indian families living in rural areas depend on firewood, cow’s dung and kerosene for cooking and lighting. Women and children are in charge of collecting wood, spending around 2-3 hours per day, several days a week. This activity becomes increasingly difficult as the forest disappears.
Concerning health issues, respiratory and eye infections are caused through to the use of the traditional cookstoves due to smoke filling the inside of houses. Moreover, most of the villages do not have a proper waste management system and they have no infrastructure (washing facilities for instance). Furthermore, the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides raises the price of agricultural production and reduces soil fertility and crop yields in the long term.
The diffusion of anaerobic digesters brings a real solution to confront thesee situation faced by the rural families in India. The organic waste is fed into the digesters and is transformed, in the absence of oxygen by a microbial complex system, into biogas.
Thus the organic residues are recycled. The biogas that is produced considerably decreases dependency on wood and fossil fuels. The compost resulting from the process enhances soils structure: it supports the activity of micro-organisms while providing nutritious elements to the plants.
NEWS:
Having constructed 516 units in 2008, Action Carbone and SKG Sangha have agreed to launch a second project on the scale of 900 additional biogas reactors in 2009. In 2010, more than 2100 units will be constructed. The first project has been validated and registered by the Gold Standard in the microscale category. The second project is following the same path, and the third project will be validated and registered by the Gold Standard in the smallscale category.
Since 2008, Action Carbone along with SKG Sangha have built more than 2500 biogas tank for about 10 000 beneficiaries.
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