Villages on the outskirts of Indore are now being handsomely rewarded for handing over their mounds of bovine waste in a pilot project to help meet the city's power needs
In this photograph taken on March 4, 2022, an excavator loads cow dung for biogas production into a truck at the dairy farm of farmer Suresh Sisodia in Mayakhedi village on the outskirts of Indore. India is tapping a new energy source that promises to help clean up smog-choked cities and is already providing a vital revenue stream for poor Indian farmers: truckloads of bovine manure. (Credit: Gagan NAYAR / AFP)