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  Decomposition of organic matter yields gas,  which has higher thermal efficiency in comparison to kerosene, dung cake and charcoal. Biogas plants are set up at municipal, cooperative and individual levels. The plants using cattle dung are known as 'Gobar gas plants' in rural India. These provide twin benefits to the farmer in the form of energy and unproved quality of manure. Read the above passage and answer the following questions (a) What are Gobar gas plants? What are three levels on which they are set up ? (b) What are the benefits of Gobar gas plants? (c) What values/lesson you have learnt from the above passage?                             

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                  (a) The plants using cattle dung are known as 'Gobar gas plants' in rural India. Gobar gas plants are set up at three levels (i) Municipal                       (ii) Cooperative                (iii) Individual (b) Gobar gas plants provide improved quality of manure to the farmers and Biogas obtained from these plants is used as a fuel. (c) From the given passage I have learnt that biogas is an eco-friendly source of energy and how it is beneficial to the farmers in the form of energy.