New Delhi, July 2 -- Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Thursday announced the launch of the Japan-India Compressed Biogas (CBG) Initiative, saying she and Prime Minister Narendra Modi had agreed to jointly promote the production of clean energy from cattle dung and other agricultural biomass through cooperative institutions.

Addressing the India-Japan Joint Economic Forum in the national capital as part of her three-day official visit to the country, Takaichi said the initiative would harness India's vast and largely underutilised rural biomass resources, including cattle dung, rice straw, sugarcane residue and other agricultural waste, to produce compressed biogas (CBG).

She stated that there a vast biomass resources available ...