The plant uses feedstock like cow dung, agricultural waste, waste food and pressmud and converts it to biogas to produce CNG. “Due to the lack of domestic cooking gas plant, people had to suffer for five months during the trade embargo imposed by India in September 2015,” said Sandeep Kumar Agrawal, managing director of the company. “It is the first biogas plant in Nepal that will produce cooking gas in a commercial way.” The company has also leased 15 bigas of land near the plant and has planted maize that can be used as a supplementary material for biogas production. The company said that maize grains are the most suitable material for biogas production and can sustain the plant’s raw material requirements for a long time. The company has been growing maize in a commercial way.