BIRD POWER IN REDUCING METHANE EMISSIONS

At a recent venture capital conference in Mumbai, India heads of agribusinesses were shooting the breeze on innovative ways to make their businesses greener, & earn carbon credits. In addition, the ideas came rolling in.

       One ingenious bright spark involved feeding poultry birds with pills, which would stop them from passing wind. That would reduce methane emission (which formed a major part of bird of bird & human gaseous releases) & in turn, each earns carbon credits.

                 Scientists from New Zealand developed a vaccine in 2008, which prevents sheep passing gas. Why such extremes measures? Forty-Five million sheep & 10 million cattle in New Zealand accounted for almost 90 % of that country’s methane emissions.