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- Title
Transforming the Livelihood of Rural Households: A Case of Successful Adoption of Biogas Technology in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
- Authors
Amir, Syed Muhammad; Khan, Shehzad; Abro, Asif Ali; Inamullah, Ehsan; Mehmood, Tahir
- Abstract
Extensive use of conventional energy sources with negative impacts and existing poor farming systems in Pakistan have driven implementation of biogas technology by governmental and non-governmental organizations. This study focuses on the rate of successful adoption of bio gas technology and its multiple impacts on 113 farming households in two purposively selected districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province (i.e. district Mardan and Dera Ismail Khan). Based on the descriptive nature of the study, quantitative approach was used with the help of a predesigned questionnaire. Frequency distributions, percentages, and paired T-tests were used to analyze and present the data. Results indicate that time spent on cooking and fuel collection significantly reduced after biogas adoption; and it also generates opportunity of alternative activities in saved time, and enhances fuel energy consumption pattern. Biogas technology brings improvement in the economic condition in terms of reduced expenditure (on buying other fuel energy materials and on buying chemical fertilizers), and in terms of higher earnings from selling trees. In light of the findings from this research, biogas technology has been proved to have great potential to improve the quality of life of farming households which in turn would positively affect the agriculture sector.
- Subjects
PAKISTAN; KHYBER Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan); AGRICULTURAL technology; BIOGAS; DISTRIBUTION (Probability theory); CONSUMPTION (Economics); HOUSEHOLDS; ENERGY consumption; FERTILIZERS
- Publication
Sarhad Journal of Agriculture, 2022, Vol 38, Issue 3, p885
- ISSN
1016-4383
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17582/journal.sja/2022/38.3.885.893