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Challenges facing installed digesters (n = 200)
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|
Low energy production
|
32%
|
|
Damage of installed digesters
|
31%
|
|
Inadequate institutional support
|
22%
|
|
Shortage of manure
|
15%
|
|
Reasons for not adopting biogas technology (n = 200)
|
|
Lack of feedstock
|
13%
|
|
High cost of construction
|
24%
|
|
No credit access
|
13.8%
|
|
Spillover effect of failed digesters
|
52.3%
|
|
No space for digester pit preparation
|
48.5%
|
|
Water problem
|
37.6%
|
|
Limited knowhow
|
14.2%
|
|
Favorable conditions for wider promotion of biogas technology (n = 400)
|
|
Availability of cheap feedstocks
|
39%
|
|
Existence of subsidy for the technology
|
25.5%
|
|
Multifaceted benefits of the technology
|
39.9%
|
|
Scarcity of solid fuels
|
44.5%
|
|
Increase the price of solid and fossil fuels
|
36.2%
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