Nigeria: FG to Build Biogas Plants to Convert Cow Dung to Fertilizer
By Emmanuel Ulayi, allAfrica.com, July 3, 2006
The federal government is to construct two pilot biogas plants for the conversion of abattoir wastes to biogas and organic fertilizer in Oyo and Kano states. The project, which would involve the use of an appropriate technology for treating abattoir waste, will also be implemented through public/ private partnership.
In addition to the production of a cheap source of domestic cooking gas and organic fertilizer, the plant will generate employment opportunities and mitigate the effects of green house gasses.
Disclosing this in Abuja, at Maiden National Environmental Sanitation Day celebration, with the theme " Clean People, Clean Environment for Healthy People, Wealthy Nation," the minister of Environment, Chief Mrs Helen Esuene, lamented that markets and abattoirs in developing countries are known to pose major challenges to sound environmental sanitation because most of the activities carried out in these places are often associated with poor hygiene practices.
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