Country’s biggest biogas plant inaugurated

PHA, farmers to benefit from organic fertiliser production

LAHORE:

The biggest biogas plant of Pakistan was inaugurated in Gujjar Colony on Sunday.

The compressed biogas plant has the capacity to produce 600 cubic metres of gas daily. As much as 1,600 kilogrammes of dung would be used in the biogas plant daily to produce 16,000kg of organic fertiliser.

The Parks and Horticultural Authority (PHA) and farmers can use the organic fertiliser produced by the plant.

Talking with the media after the inauguration of the plant, Caretaker Punjab Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi said the dung seen on the roads would be eliminated and organic fertiliser produced from it.

The organic fertiliser produced by the biogas plant will also be sold to the people and the PHA will earn revenue from it.

He said an extension project of the plant should also be launched as it would benefit the local residents.

Provincial Caretaker Minister Bilal Afzal, the secretaries of energy and information, commissioner of Lahore, CCPO, deputy commissioner and other officials were present on the occasion.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 5^th, 2024.