The collaboration will promote biogas based manure management model
National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) has partnered with Sustain Plus Energy Foundation to promote biogas based manure management model. Meenesh Shah, Executive Director, NDDB and Ganesh Neelam, Director, Sustain Plus were instrumental in developing the project on biogas and slurry processing centres. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to this effect was signed recently to form the strategic partnership.
Both the organisations have agreed to work together facilitating the sustainability of such interventions and generating learnings for a scale-up across the country. It will also help achieve convergence with various schemes.
Shah said that the collaboration will help NDDB to test and replicate the experience of the biogas manure management model in other parts of the country through the network of dairy cooperatives and producer companies. The biogas based manure management model helps satisfy clean cooking energy need of smallholder farmers and promote usage of nutrient-rich bio-slurry in agriculture.
Shah mentioned that farmers can earn additional income through the sale of surplus bio-slurry. The aggregated surplus slurry is utilised to produce slurry based organic fertiliser. With farmers resorting to clean cooking practices and arresting methane emission, the model mitigates the adverse impact on the environment.
Neelam informed that this partnership will help Sustain Plus to scale up decentralised sustainable energy access programmes and technologies to solve the most critical developmental issues faced by the marginalised and vulnerable communities.
