Adoption of biogas as an alternative source of energy in Jinja District

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to obtain information about adoption of biogas as an alternative source of energy in Jinja district. Data was collected 75 households which owned livestock.

Most (60%) of the respondents were male the most predominant age group was 46 years (44 %), and the majority (52%) had a family size of 6 to 10 people and had attained tertiary education. Majority (80 %) of respondents owned fixed domed bio digester, Major sources of information and maintenance about biogas were mainly from NGOs (64 %), Most (48%) of the respondents attributed the reason for adopting biogas to availability of feedstock and' the' most predominant challenge faced by most respondents who adopted biogas technology in the study area was l ow as volume (20%).

Basing on the results of the study, it was concluded that all the respondents carried out mixed farming and most at the farmers owned cattle under intensive system of rearing. Most (48%) of the respondents attributed the reason for adopting biogas to availability of feedstock and the most predominant challenge faced by most respondents who adopted biogas technology in the study area was low volume of gas. The researcher recommends that operators of biogas plants should prepare feedstock appropriately that is mixing the water or urine with excrement to get a porridge mixture and use fresh excrement for feeding the digester to overcome the challenge of low gas volume.