Analysis of Biogas Technology in Bangladesh

Bangladesh is a developing country which consuming quite less amount of energybesides producing more social and environmental difficulties due to use of fossiland biomass fuels. Biogas, renewable energy could be an alternative usable sourceinstead of fossil and regular use of biomass. Biogas serves manifold direct andindirect benefits to the society. This book empirically identifies the most importantsocio-economic factors that influence to adopt the domestic biogas plant.The level of education, income, number of cattle and sex (female) are most influentialto adopt biogas plant. Data of biogas users and potential biogas users werecollected from Bangladesh. Application of slurry, byproduct of biogas technologyplays a vital role to increase agricultural production as well as improve the soilfertility. This book proves that slurry oriented biogas households are more efficientto Boro rice production compare to biogas non-users. Finally, the book finds thatbiogas is a profitable business considering the financial and economic assumption.All these assumptions are prescribed to provide incentives for extending the biogasbusiness. Using the find of these empirical analyses, some policy recommendationsare presented in order to enlarge the biogas technology in rural areas ofBangladesh.