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Efficient Transformation of Agricultural Waste in India

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India is an agro-based country, and around 70% of its rural household still depends primarily on agriculture for their livelihood. Various agriculture operations such as livestock, animal bedding, aquaculture, and other wastes are generated in the form of leaves, grass clippings, and kitchen scraps as well. Although agro-waste is considered as non-product outputs of production, wastes may be productive/beneficial to society if proper processing could be done. Nowadays, disposal/utilization of agriculture waste has become an important concern. Agricultural wastes may be exploited to generate energy, biofuel production, biofertilizer, compost, biogas, paper, etc. Sustainable use of the resources is the best substitute to reduce the global environment issues because of waste dumping. Generation of power through agro-wastes is new eco-friendly resources for the sustainability as it causes less pollution as compared to conventional energy resources (coal), and finally it is going to fulfill the world energy demand. Improper disposition of agro-wastes not only causes environmental pollution but also wastes a lot of valuable biomass resources when organic wastes are broken down by microbes in heat-generating environment; the volume of waste is reduced, and products are produced.

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  1. Department of Botany, Dayalbagh Educational Institute (Deemed University), Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Mrinalini Prasad, Rajiv Ranjan, Akbar Ali, Deepika Goyal, Arti Yadav, Teg Bahadur Singh, Preksha Shrivastav & Prem Kumar Dantu

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  3. Centre for Biotechnology Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana, India

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Prasad, M. et al. (2020). Efficient Transformation of Agricultural Waste in India. In: Naeem, M., Ansari, A., Gill, S. (eds) Contaminants in Agriculture. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41552-5_13

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