sixty percent of the population in Nepal, particularly the rural, burns fuel wood to produce energy every day. The demand for fuelwood is increasing. Without proper management of fuel wood cutting, forest resources can be depleted in no time. Thanks to Late B.R. Soubolle, a missionary schoolteacher was the protagonist of biogas technology in Nepal. He built an experimental basis, the gobar (animal dung) plant and demonstrated the possibility of utilising organic waste for producing biogas in early 1960s. The gobar gas technology is based on anaerobic fermentation of organic waste causing its decomposition, which generates 60-70 percent methane gas.

After 15 years of Soubolles experimentation, the government launched a gobar gas plant construction program in 1975/76, the Agriculture year, by providing interest free loans to farmers for installing gobar-gas plants. In the following year, low interest bearing loans were offered. Since the cost of the plant was too high for an ordinary farmer to bear, UNDP and UNICEF came up with a subsidy program of 50 percent cost for installing community plants.

This type of technology could atleast save the forest land and it can be the solution for control of environmental degradation in the rural community