Muhammad Usman
Former Director General of Agricultural Research System, Pakistan
Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Arch Chem Res
The title of biofuels and bioenergy is the major tool for the poverty alleviation in the developing countries of the world like South Asia were studied and reported that biofuels can be produced from plant, plant derived materials, renewable in nature, derived from biomass and used directly for heating known as biomass fuels. Biofuels can be broadly defined as solid, liquid, or gas fuel consisting of or derived from biomass. Biomass can also be used directly for heating or power-known as biomass fuel. Biomass is a biological materials derived from living organism including plants and animals, known as agricultural biomass. As per report in Pakistan, a single cow is sufficient to provide a whole family with their milk and energy needs as biogas generated from the dung of cow. This is not only the cheapest source of energy but also an important alternative to replace the costly item like furnace oil, coal, natural gas used for non-renewable energy. It means, bioenergy is the basic need of our life, main source of poverty and without energy life is almost impossible. In view of the importance of bioenergy, the developing counties are still facing energy crises due to dense population and highly dependence on nonrenewable energy although a great potential of bioenergy are available. As reported, due to lack of energy nearly one billion people go to bed hungry each night. Keeping in view the importance of bioenergy, it is necessary that the potential of fuel and bioenergy available may be commercialized to increase the income, reduce the energy crises as well as poverty in the developing countries of the world like South Asia.
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