By Charles katabalwa.
In a bid to fight against environmental degradation and pollution as well as increasing on the income of poor, government has been urged to launch a universal bio-gas scheme that will encourage many Ugandans to embrace the use of bio-gas.
In the year 2022 a Non-government Organization Sistema-bio launched a program to provide farmers in the country with the technology used to produce bio-gas and farmers from Fort-portal city, Mbarara city and Mitooma districts who have this system are happy for the fact that it has helped them to get cooking gas, fertilizers from bio-gas and they no longer cut down trees to get firewood for cooking.
Speaking to journalists and experts from Sistema-bio who visited Fort-portal city Mbarara city and Mitooma districts to see how people are using Sistema bio- gas system, Cox Nyakairu the former RDC of Kyegegwa District and now a proficient farmer said that using bio-gas is very good and one can completely get out of poverty due to its multipurpose usages.
“I used to cut a lot of trees to get firewood for cooking and it costed me much money because I was paying people to cut it down, splitting as we as collecting them up to home , which I no longer spend” Nyakairu says.
“It’s good that government stared the program of giving out heifers to famers which means famers already have products used in bio gas it’s a matter of giving the Sistema-bio on low costs to start using the system ” he disclosed.
Nnyakairu said it is time for the government to work with agencies like Sistema-bio to educate and provide people with the use of bio-gas as it reduces environmental damage especially in deforestation as well as raised agriculture outputs.
Meanwhile Felix Okello Atube the Sistema-bio Relationships Manager Mid-Western region said that since the introduction of the Sistema-bio gas system in Uganda by 2022 in areas like Fort-portal city, Mbarara city, Mitooma districts citizens longer cut down trees to get firewood for cooking instead diverted to raising cattle for the reasons they provide dung used to produce bio-gas which also used as fertilizer in their gardens now over 50 people in eastern region of Uganda are changing their lives and they expect by 2025 at least 10,000 farmers will be using bio-gas.
On the same cause, Katuvire Beatrice who is the wife of Abel Nabimanya from Rwendamu village, Rwejeru Ward Mbarara city North Division said that since she started using Sistema-Bio it has helped her change her life and her family income, the nature of the world!
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