She is a member of a spiritual community that maintains a modest ashram, or religious retreat, in a hamlet in the Maharashtra state in northwest India.
Gathering cow excrement is not mainly an attempt to maintain order. Rather, biomethane is produced from the cow poo.
“Fuel has gotten very expensive. Biogas was a wise choice. All you needed was room and cows. We had both, Ms. Kumbhar adds.
The cow manure is collected, combined with water, and placed in the bioreactor to make enough methane for the kitchen of the ashram.
It was installed in March and took the place of Ms. Kumbhar’s 20 liters of natural gas.
She doesn’t mind that it involves gathering the cow manure.
“The primary industry in the majority of India’s rural areas is agriculture. Therefore, it’s not a huge issue to touch the cow excrement,” she argues.
