Sanjidul Islam, a young entrepreneur in Bhedarganj upazila of Shariatpur, makes biogas from cow dung and pipes it to the kitchens of about 30 households. His plant in DM Khali union sends gas along roughly 1.5 km of pipeline and uses about 3,000 kg of dung a day.
The problem it solves is cooking fuel. With bottled LPG expensive and supply uncertain, local people say having gas at home without buying cylinders has made everyday cooking easier.
After passing his SSC exams in 2018, Sanjidul went to Bogura to learn driving and saw a biogas plant for the first time. Inspired by seeing cooking gas made from dung, he later built his own plant next to his uncle Yasin Mia's cattle farm, investing about Tk 1.1 million.
Gas is not the only product: the material left after digestion becomes organic fertiliser. Sanjidul says he earns about Tk 70,000 a month from selling gas and fertiliser.
Dung once seen as waste is now fuel and fertiliser beside the farm. Banglavision's report says projects like this could spread to many more rural areas with the right support.
The report is by Ilias Mahmud, Banglavision's Shariatpur correspondent.
Photo: Ibrahim Husain Meraj / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Source: Banglavision
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