New Strategic Collaboration with Bali AIAT
We have developed a biogas digester made of economical PVC that can be mass-produced and installed above ground for more efficient repair and replacement. This design reduces installation time from one week to one day and installation costs from 1000 USD to 300 USD.
Our next step is to conduct a mass deployment, where we can target more villages so that more farmers use our biogas digester. We need to move faster by collaborating with more organizations across Bali to do this. Bali AIAT (Institute for Agricultural Technology) is one of the local organizations which can support our activities.
su-re.co and Bali AIAT (Institute for Agricultural Technology) or BPTP Bali have met several times to discuss the potential collaboration in supporting farmers. We also actively invited Bali AIAT to attend our international workshops to update the progress of our current projects.
Our strategic collaboration is finally official. Our CEO Takeshi Takama and the head of Bali AIAT, Dr Made Rai, signed the MoU to install biogas digesters for coffee and cacao farmers under Bali AIAT's supervision.
As our first attempt, on March 28, 2022, we installed a biogas digester for I Nyoman Astrawan (Komang), a cacao farmer from Candi Kusuma Village, Melaya District, Jembrana, who owns 4 cows, 4 pigs, and around 2 ha of cacao farms. The installation was started at 10 am and finished at 12,30 pm. Dr Made Rai said, “We hope that biogas installation will provide economic benefits to the farmers and positively impact the environment,”. This collaboration aims for achieving greater impacts on biogas installation for farmers in Bali, and we hope to work on more areas in the future.
