Biomass gasifier system for village electrification and water pumping - Phase II under BIMSTEC

Myanmar is committed toenhance the social and economic lives of its rural people within the context of environmental restoration and greening on a sustainable basis. Towards this end, it is considered to set up the biomass gasifier system for supplying electricity for various applications, including pumping of water in rural areas. TERI has, in January 2004, installed a biomass gasifier at Kokke Village in Myingyan Township, Mandalay Division, Myanmar, for curing tobacco.