Zimbabwe Domestic Biogas program
Channel: Foundation for Peace and Reconstruction Africa
Date: 2018-10-08

Zimbabwe Domestic Biogas program.

This program is being taught at the post level academies in Zimbabwe at present to allow the cutting down of trees to be halted. Many farmers, schools and communities have taken up the call to install them and have really seen the benefits to cooking, heating and using the bio-gas for lighting their homes, schools and farms. If you are not linked to the grid electricity then this is a viable energy source for you. The time that is spent collecting firewood is now used on more productive activities. 

By mixing 3 containers of cow dung with 3 containers of water into a slurry this allows the bio-digester to be primed for the day. The gas is piped to the house for use.

Bio-slurry is an offshoot of the bio-gas process and this is used as an organic fertilizer for the growing of organic vegetables. 

The bio-digester has a life span of approx 25 to 30 years and the cost was approx USD 1600.