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Authors : Dr. Vandana Dhawad

Page Nos : 1-7

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Abstract: In the rural areas of India, women have traditionally shouldered the responsibility of managing domestic energy requirements for their families. Thus they have an intrinsic and symbiotic relationship with the surrounding natural resource system. Cooking fuels are derived predominantly from biomass resources like wood, crop residues, and animal dung. Fuel wood collection is carried out by women. Alternative energy technology such as micro hydro plants, biogas plants, solar cooker have a high potential to reduce women’s workloads and improve their health status, as well as increasing efficient energy supply in rural areas. Biogas is a clean and convenient fuel for cooking and lighting in the household, it can supply power for irrigation and small industries, and the effluent slurry a by product can be used as an organic manure. Keywords: energy, biogas technology, cooking fuels, women’s workload.

Date of Online: 30 Jan 2015