Bhoumadeepam aims to reduce methane gas emission

Twenty dairy farmers to be given ₹24,000 each to set up bio-gas plants at Cheruvannur

The Animal Husbandry department is encouraging dairy farmers to set up bio-gas plants in a bid to reduce methane gas emission, a major contributor to climate change.

A scheme titled Bhoumadeepam was recently launched in Cheruvannur grama panchayat in Kozhikode. It will help farmers use methane as cooking gas.

“Dairy cattle like cows, buffaloes, and farm animals contribute to methane, a major green house gas,” says the Kerala State Action Plan on Climate Change, brought out by the State government in 2014. The plan envisaged encouraging bio-gas plants to utilise the methane gas produced for energy resource as Methane Farming Project.