Impact of biogas production on living standard in rural area of Bangladesh

This study investigates the impact of biogas production on living standards and the relationship between farmer activities and livelihood status in rural Bangladesh, highlighting the need for fundamental requirements.Twenty two villages from three districts were selected for this study. One hundred and eighty farmers were interviewed during July to September 2021; whereas ninety five farmers were biogas plant owner and rest of them have capacity to install biogas plant. The result shows that the increase modern technology use has highest mean score (0.85) and 34.74 % of the beneficiaries from biogas plant have above 500000 taka income level compared to 34.11 % of non beneficiaries in the same level. There was no mentionable difference among the respondent’s categories through annual income. Most of the respondents (above 70%) used modern techniques such as aluminum/plastic made sieve, glass plates, tray fryer, grinding machine, flux, hot pot plastic bucket, plastic pot, bicycle, wood khat with mattress, iron machine, tube well water, packaging materials, upgraded cloth and toilet with water cistern. No significant differences were shown through beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries except wood khat with mattress. The majority of the beneficiaries has medium (36.84%) to upper (53.68%) level livelihood status while the respondents with non beneficiaries has medium (36.47%) to upper (52.90%) level livelihood status, which means impact of biogas production is low. The livelihood status is highly correlated with improved environmental safety significantly (p≤0.1%). The time saving and patronizing child more, increased fish cultivation and increased production of composed fertilizer were not correlated significantly with livelihood status at p≤5% level of probability.

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