A feasibility study conducted in Bhutan in 2008 concluded that a
small scale domestic biogas program is possible with a technical
potential of about 20,000 biogas plants especially in the
southern belt and inner mountain valleys. The key question for
the development of a substantial biogas program was whether the
households having enough number of cattle to install biogas
plant are willing and able to invest in it and to feed the plant
with the required amount of manure on a daily basis. Hence this
market study was conducted to analyze the technical and socio-
economic feasibility of biogas program, which assessed the
willingness and affordability of livestock keeping households to
invest in biogas technology. Half the population depended on
agriculture and is therefore based in the village implying that
the biogas plants (home-based) can be managed. Farmers have
sufficient land to install biogas plants and slurry pits
although location of the cowsheds may not always be near the
houses and kitchens in some of