Nestle facilitates access to financial assistance, while HIVOS constructs the biogas units and provides training, and the aim is to set up 8000 biogas units in total.
Where the Nestlé/HIVOS project is not active, another smaller project has been set up with farmers supplying the Kejayan factory, to reduce their impact on the environment – and particularly on water resources – and to save energy at a household level, Nestlé has set up a fund to provide dairy cooperatives with 50 small biogas units and 10 larger units.
The renewable energy (methane) they create is made available to dairy farmers.
An estimated 8300 people will initially benefit from these two projects but our aim is to ultimately extend this project to all dairy farmers in the region.
