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Item Socio-Economic Impact of Biogas Plant (A Case Study of Lele VDC, Lalitpur District, Nepal)(Department of Rural Development, 2012) Adhikari, Nabin KishorNot AvailableItem Socio-Economic Impact of Biogas Plantin Rural Nepal (A Case Study of Phidim VDC of Panchthar District)(Department of Rural Development, 2008-04) Timsina, DipendraEnergy is a basic necessary for survival which helps in the economic developmentand living standard of a country. In Nepal, majority of the people still depends on thetraditional sources of energy i.e. firewood, which has manifold disadvantages regardingEnvironmental, Health and Sanitation but the newalternative energy, biogaswhichreplacethe traditional sources of energy,has many positive aspects. It is environment friendly andeasy to use. Since Nepal is an agricultural country,most of the people rear cattle. Cattledung is the basic raw materials for biogas. Nepal has agreatpotentiality of biogas. This study was carried out with the objective of :To find out the Socio-EconomicImpact of Biogas.The data is collected through the questionnaire, interview, FGD andobservation. The purposive sampling of 32 HHs was done to gather the necessaryinformation required. From the research it is known that the dominant position is ofBramahans followed by other castes. The main occupations of the local people areagriculture46.88 andservices25 percentin Nepal. More than 65 percent people in sampledhouseholds are literate. On an average, the each plant owners has 4 heads of livestock. Themost popular biogas plant of the study area is 6m 3 . the main reasons behind the installationof biogas plant are easy and smokeless cooking, get rid from firewood collation and timesaving. On an average, time saving after installation is 120 minutes per day from firewoodcollection, cooking activities and washing utensils. Saving of time which is spent collectingfirewood and its reduction of consumption is equal to Rs. 400 per months. Most of thepeople use Bio-slurry in their farms in composted form. According to them, the use of slurryhas increased the production especially Maze, Paddy and vegetables. The use of chemicalfertilizer has been reduced which has helpedin saving money. In the present world, there is shortage of petroleum fuels on the one had and theother the price for such fuels is getting very high. Developing country like Nepal, whodoesn't have itsown petroleum products, cannot have such fuels. So, alternative energy forsuch fuels can be biogas in Nepal because it is an agricultural country and thus, thepotentiality is very high. Besides that biogas is environmental friendly so it can directly helpCDM programme. And from carbon trading Nepal also can get a high amount of money.Item A Study on The Socio-Economic Impactof Biogas Plant on Users (A Case Study of Saudiyar Vdc, Dang District,Nepal)(Department of Rural Development, 2010) Sharma, GangaThis thesis entitled "Socio-Economic Impact of Biogas Plant onuser:ACase Study of Saundiyr VDC, Dang, Nepal". The general objective of thisstudy is to find out the socio-economic impact of biogas plant installationin Saundiyar VDC, Dang. The specific objectives of the study are: tostudy the biogas plant as an alternative of forest resources, to assess thetime and money saving due to the adaptation of biogas plant, to study thebenefits of slurry in agricultural production and to give suggestions andrecommendations to promote biogas plant installation. This study has been chosen as a special topic to address the problem ofenergy in the study area and to provide the scope for the dissemination ofthe biogas technology. This study is basically based on both primary andsecondary sources of data. Saundiyar V.D.C of Dang districthas been taken as the study area. Outof the total of 154 biogas households in ward no1 and ward no2, 30households have been taken as the sample households using simplerandom sampling. Before selecting a topic, a brief review of the literature related to theimpact study of biogas on users has been studied. Primary as well assecondary data have been used in this study V Household Survey through interview, field observation has been taken asa method of data collection and collected data has been analyzedusingsimple statistical tool suchas, average, percentage table. This study found that majority of the households (50%) out of totalinterviewed reported that they had adopted agriculture as a mainoccupation. About 60% out of total interviewed reported that they werefrom Brahmin caste. About 90.7% plant owners out of total interviewedwere literate whereasonly 9.7 % were illiterate.And most of bio-gasplant owner (30) % had 21 to 30 kattha land. Out of total sampled biogas plant owners, majority of the households(40%) had reported that they used their saved time in farm activities andincome generation activities. About 76.7% households reported that themain reason behind the installation of biogas plant was easy andsmokeless cooking. Total average time saving was 4.9 hrs per day perhousehold. Average saving amount of money was Rs.650per month perhousehold. Furthermore, Most of bio-gas plant owner (93.4%) had latrine facility.Among them 76.7 % plant owners had attached latrine with the biogasplant. This study also revealed that improvement was found in health andsanitation situation Majority of the respondents (83.4%) reported that theagricultural production had been increased.