Willingness to Pay for Biogas Digestor Construction of Farmers who have Swine Livestock in the Households’ Level: Champasak Province, Lao PDR
Abstract:
The purpose of this paper is to identify the environmental issue and policy solution for encouraging biogas construction. An environmental evaluation related to environmentally friendly communities' beneficial biogas production persuasion policy applies to household-level farms with the idea of building biogas production under Scenario 1. As the first policy recommendation for the Laos government to focus on environmental issues solutions, farmers were appreciated for contributing to biogas construction activities and agreed to participate in the schemes to produce biogas production practices equal to 216.86 USD/household. The data analysis estimated that farmers with swine livestock would be willing to pay 43.18 USD per household in satiation 2. The willingness to pay valuation under scenario 3 for policy optimization in the case of a promotion scheme from the government or international organizations to participate in providing building and installation materials or technical encouragement 11.69 USD/household represented feasibility biogas production construction implementation if the project is a long-term project with a project duration of more than 5 years or more, but if the project is a short-term project with a project duration of fewer than 5 years.
