インド・ウッタラカンド州における大規模なバイオガス導入が森林再生にもたらす効果

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As the aim of the research is to monitor the impact of large-scale biogas intervention on forest regeneration in Uttarakhand, India. In this financial year, we conducted following activities.1.Mapping forest cover change using Landsat data in the study area. This data is useful to conduct a field survey and validation of results based on change in forest cover and intervention of biogas plants.2.Fieldwork and focused group discussion with the local people were conudcted to find out whether biogas is a mainstream solution for fuelwood. During the discussion, people mentioned various benefits of biogas. Respondent mettioned that biogas is not sucessful in some areas as an alternative energy source because of various reasons such as: reduction in the production of enough animal dung because of a decrease in the number of animals, poor-design/technology of biogas plant, poor training to run the plant, seasonality, migration etc. We have also visited the places where people are still collecting the fuelwood from the forest and interviewed them to find out the reasons.3.We collected data on various biogas plants and their locations in the study area. This data is useful to get quantitative information about forest biomass regeneration using remote sensing data. PALSAR based biomass estimation is under processing.