Patiala: It can solve the largest punjab environmental problem from managing plant residues, but Iit-Ropar’s ideas about playing rice stumps to furniture plywood do not have takers, even when scientists are ready to transfer this technology for free.
Dean of Research on Naveen Kumar Mechanical Engineering, whose team developed this technology, said there was no government organization or industrial house that showed interest in the discovery of 2013 this patented in 2016.
The ply board can be made by pouring a chemical solution developed by IIT on rice straw and pressing with available machines.
Dean said: “The team visited several plywood factories to show them our technology but they were not ready to invest in a general compression machine.
They are satisfied with their income from wooden wood.
We test our plywood in the best laboratories and find it stronger than the product Conventional.
It is also much cheaper, besides providing this technology to farmers or industrialists for free.
“He said the lack of response was also due to lack of consciousness.
“We cannot advertise this technology outside our capacity.
We will now write to government organizations to examine this invention for evironment.” Punjab produces 220 lakh tons of rice residues every year, where 50 lakh tons fired biomass plants to make electricity.
The farmers prefer to burn rice straw, even because it causes severe air pollution from mid-September to November.
They have not found a decent alternative so far.
For residual advantages, they want compensation.
The Punjab pollution council claimed he did not realize the technology that made furniture from straw, even though it was now there for eight years.
Secretary of the Karunesh Garg council member said: “We do a lot of effort to manage plants.
This year again, we have several plans.
We will check the discovery of IIT.”