The Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) and Holland’s Development Organization (SNV) have been granted the Global Green Award 2010 for their biogas project.

 

The cooperation between the two organizations has created favourable conditions for the sustainable expansion of biogas technology in Vietnam.

 

The project was initiated in 2003, aiming to build 168,000 biogas works by 2012. By 2009, the project had reduced nearly 167,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide in the air every year.

 

According to MARD, 78,000 biogas works have been built that benefit about 390,000 farmers in Vietnam.

 

Each biogas project built for a family breeding 10-15 pigs will help them save up to VND6 million in fuel costs every year, says Nguyen Xuan Duong, deputy director general of MARD’s  Livestock Breeding Department.

 

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