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Punjab is home to innovative technology that produces clean fuel from agricultural waste. Sangrur was the hotbed of intensive wheat-rice agriculture in Punjab and topped the charts for farm fire incidents. India’s biggest CBG plant, and the only one on paddy straw, was commissioned in Sangrur,
The plant can produce CBG as well as organic manure daily from agricultural waste. India imports 85% of its crude oil, making it the third largest importer in the world. It has the potential to produce clean fuel like CBG, that can replace 50% of the current diesel use in transport. However the CBG plants still need to find market to sell manure they produce to make the CBG plants viable.

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