Bangalore: Chicken poo can be used to reduce electricity bills too

Here is good news for poultry farmers who are worried about the disposal of poultry manure that has become a bone of contention between the so-called fringe organisations and the farmers. Nanda Group, a poultry at Arohalli near Bangalore, has installed an automatic manure collection system - the manure is collected, transported to biogas plants and the farmers are given a source of renewable energy, cutting down on electricity costs, considerably. “We are able to collect the poultry manure on a daily basis and load into trucks that carry it to the biogas plant to produce biogas/bio-methane,’’ said Narendra K Pasuparthy, director, Nanda Group. The gas is then fired in a biogas generator to produce electricity to run the hatchery that produces a million one-day old chicks per month.