A Minister has already indicated that it would not be possible to fulfill the government’s pre-election commitment for power generation in three years.

Engr. Islam said there are around 100,000 poultry farms in the country, but 90 percent of them are too small to generate biogas-based power plants. However, there are around 35,000 biogas plants across the country being used only for cooking burners.

Dr Khan and Engr Islam said low-cost bank loans would be helpful for the farms to adopt the technology.

But GTZ programme coordinator Erich Otto Gomm said, ‘It would help but not necessary. When a bank will find it a viable project, it’ll come up with finance.’

Replying to a question, he said there is no need to seek government intervention in promoting the biogas-based power plants as it would only make things complicated. ‘Since it’s feasible, we don’t need to involve the government as it would make the process cumbersome.’

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