Ibadan — The Institute of Agricultural Research and Training (IAR&T), Moor Plantation, Ibadan has commissioned its newly discovered biogas project at Apete Onidoko farming village in Ido Local Government Area of Oyo State with a call on the federal government and other tiers of government in Nigeria to replicate the project across the country for the good of the environment. Addressing the jubilant community members during the commissioning ceremony, the Director of IAR&T, Professor James Adediran, said the benefits of biogas are limitless, saying biogas could be used in the farms, in the homes, in institutions and also at abattoirs among others. "Biogas is a project that can give our rural dwellers the opportunity to electrify their farms and also cook their food by using less tedious and cost effective means of converting the wastes which constitute menace to the environment to wealth. Very soon, we can use it for garri processing instead of felling trees from the forests and causing deforestation," he said. Aside Apete Onidoko which consists of about 40 hamlets, other adopted villages in Oyo State under the World Bank sponsored projects have been penciled down to benefit from the biogas initiative, according to the IAR&T director. The Baale of Apete Onidoko, Chief Olajiire Adediran, expressed the joy of his subjects as the biogas project was commissioned for their use. The monarch commended IAR&T and the World Bank's West African Agricultural Productivity Programme (WAAPP) for lifting members of the agrarian community with infrastructures including borehole, generator, poultry sheds as well as training programmes while promising to make the best of the opportunities.