Hyderabad: The Bowenpally Vegetable Market has caught Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s attention for its innovative waste management system. PM praised the one-of-its-kind bioelectricity, biofuel and bio-manure generation project during one of Mann Ki
A biogas plant at a vegetable market in India s Telangana state is showing that a little resourcefulness can go a long way in caring for the planet and its people.
Bowenpally Market Yard Turns Vegetable Waste Into Electricity Feb 24, 2021, 15:02 IST
Everyday people come up with new ideas and ways to help the environment and do something good that will help reduce the wastage. One inspirational story now comes from Hyderabad’s vegetable market where the people have come up with an idea to turn vegetable waste into something useful.
People in the Sabzi Mandi in Hyderabad’s Bowenpally area are turning the waste from vegetables into electricity. Everyday tones of vegetable waste are generated in the market. The chopped ends from a cauliflower to leaves being cut from other vegetables, the waste is in huge quantity. Now instead of throwing all that away, the traders in Bowenpally market have decided to put it to good use.
Bowenpally vegetable market generates own green power
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Construction of the ten-tonne capacity reactor at ₹3 crore was completed last year.
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CSIR-IICT chief scientist Gangagni Rao inspecting Biogas plant at Bowenpally market in Secunderabad.
| Photo Credit: G. RAMAKRISHNA
Construction of the ten-tonne capacity reactor at ₹3 crore was completed last year. During the coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown and subsequent unlock, the Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Vegetable Market Yard in Bowenpally has been a hive of activity. It was not just about arrival of a variety of vegetables from near and far; a new waste-to-power plant was being tried out.