Institute of Development Studies (IDS), The University of Agriculture Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2021 Apr;28(16):20690-20699. doi: 10.1007/s11356-020-12042-x. Epub 2021 Jan 6.
Worldwide, biogas programs fail to achieve broad acceptability because of failure to account for socio-economic constraints during program design and implementation. This paper attempts to revisit the relationship between socio-economic characteristics of rural households and adoption of biogas technology at the household level in Pakistan by using a predicted willingness-to-adopt approach in addition to considering energy-related variables which have been rarely accounted for in previous literature. The study is based on primary data collected from 200 households across eight villages in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Province. A chi-square test of association is applied to determine the relationship between farmers' socio-economic characteristics and their willingness-to-adopt domestic biogas technology. Results confirm that socio-economic factors such as education, total landholdings, cost of energy consumption, duration of electric shortfalls, occurrence of smoke-related diseases, and possession of livestock had a significant relationship with farmers' willingness-to-adopt biogas technology. The study concludes that for the successful deployment of biogas technology in rural areas, it is imperative to account for the socio-economic conditions of the population.
在全球范围内，沼气项目未能得到广泛接受，原因是在项目设计和实施过程中没有考虑到社会经济限制。本文试图通过使用预测的采用意愿方法，重新审视巴基斯坦农村家庭的社会经济特征与家庭一级采用沼气技术之间的关系，除了考虑到以前文献中很少考虑到的能源相关变量。该研究基于在开伯尔-普赫图赫瓦省（KP）的八个村庄收集的 200 户家庭的原始数据。卡方检验用于确定农民的社会经济特征与其采用国内沼气技术的意愿之间的关系。结果证实，教育、土地总面积、能源消费成本、电力短缺持续时间、与烟雾相关的疾病发生率以及牲畜拥有量等社会经济因素与农民采用沼气技术的意愿有显著关系。该研究得出结论，为了在农村地区成功部署沼气技术，必须考虑到人口的社会经济状况。
