India produces electricity from bamboo

According to Indo-Asian News Service of India issued on 20/8, India will build a power plant "green" in the state of Mizoram Bamboo running cost 28.5 crore, contributing meet The energy bridge of this northeastern part of the country.

Bamboo forest in Mizoram (Photo: mizobamboo.nic.in)

Co-ordinator Benjamin L.Tlumtea of the Zoram Energy Development Authority said the cost-savings project was led by Bangalore-based Indian Institute of Science and the Ankur Energy Technology Private Company. . After being cut and dried, the bamboo is used to produce gas and eventually convert it into electricity. Mizoram will spend about 9,000 km2 of land for bamboo with an estimated output of 3.2 million tons per year.

Currently, India is the second largest producer of bamboo in the world after China, producing about 80 million tons a year, of which more than 50% is in the northeast.