SIALKOT: A crop biomass cell has been setup in Punjab agriculture department for assessing the production of crops and estimating biomass for generating electricity from alternative resources.
The agriculture department sources told APP on Saturday that the basic concept of setting up this center was to evaluate biomass from crops waste and to gather information about waste of important and small crops across the Punjab.
The centre would also focus the attention on research for developing close coordination with national and international institutions having the skill of generating electricity from biomass, the sources said.
They added the Punjab was producing over 50 million tons of agriculture waste every year out of which 6.44 million tons was sugarcane sediment which was being used by Sugar industry for power generation.
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