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Misuse of potential
and
Environmental Effects
‣ Deforested area 7000 ha/year for burning in any form
‣ Approximately 1/3 of collectable dung (156 Million
kg/day) is used for dung cake making for domestic
burning and 2/3 rd of collectable dung is open dumped
for manure.
‣ Available energy from animal dung cake only 11%.
‣ More than 50% of crop residue is burnt causing the
environment pollutions and retarding the favourable
microbial activities in soil.