Poor farmers learn to make bio-gas

Poor farmers learn to make bio-gas
(23-06-2009)
HAU GIANG — Can Tho University is training poor farmers in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Hau Giang to make bio-gas and fertilisers from water hyacinths and agricultural waste such as rice husk.
The university project – titled Production of Aqua and Agricultural Products and Renewable Energy from Water Hyacinths and Waste — which began in 2007, has received funding of 1 million euros (US$1.3 million) from the Luxembourg Agency for Development Cooperation collaboration.
Dr Do Ngoc Quynh, the project’s technical consultant, said 2,340 farmers without land or with less than 2.3 hectares and having a monthly income of less than VND 300,000 have received training in technologies and methods to make bio-gas from water hyacinths and processing the aquatic plant for aquaculture silage, and compost.

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