International Journal of Pure & Applied Bioscience (IJPAB)
Year : 2017, Volume : 5, Issue : 3
First page : (996) Last page : (1000)
Article doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2320-7051.4089

Fuel Consumption Pattern in Rural Areas of Dharwad District

Ramya Badigannavar and Suma Hasalkar*
Department of Family Resource Management, College of Rural Home Science
University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad -580005 India
*Corresponding Author E-mail: ramyabadigannavar@ymail.com
Received: 17.06.2017  |  Revised: 28.06.2017   |  Accepted: 29.06.2017  

 ABSTRACT

In the Indian villages the domestic energy needs are met from non commercial sources as fire wood, dung cake and other agricultural wastes. About 2.4 billion people rely on biomass, mainly for cooking and heating. An half of the world’s population mostly in rural areas of Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin, America still rely on unprocessed biomass as their primary source of domestic energy. In general rural domestic sector in India uses 1.2-2Kg of biomass/capita/day. Poverty is the major cause of biomass fuel use. No wonder there are only a handful of Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) users and also use biomass (mixed users) to reduce fuel cost. Hence the study was conducted to know the socio economic status, kitchen type, size and ventilation in the kitchen and to study fuel consumption pattern, reason for the choice of fuel wood for cooking. The study was carried out in villages of Dharwad district during the year 2016. The majority of the respondents belong to lower middle socio economic status. Type of kitchen was indoor kitchen with partition and kitchen was a very small and have no window facility. Most of the respondents rely on biomass for cooking fire wood and agricultural waste were used predominantly with 5-10Kg of fuel per day for cooking.  They   preferred fuel wood because of its easy source in the farms and readily available in their place. Knowledge should be imparted among rural respondents to switch for a cleaner fuel and utilize the government service.

Key words:  Biomass, socio economic status, chimney, biomass Chula, window, Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG).

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Cite this article: Badigannavar, R. and Hasalkar, S., Fuel Consumption Pattern in Rural Areas of Dharwad District, Int. J. Pure App. Biosci.5(3): 996-1000 (2017). doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2320-7051.4089