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SURAT: Surat’s Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC) has become the first cooperative society in the country to commercially sell bio-natural gas produced from fruit and vegetable waste to Gujarat Gas Ltd (GGL).The gas purchase agreement was signed between GGL and APMC on Thursday for bio-natural gas. Secretary of Surat APMC, Nilesh Thorat told TOI, “This is the first-ever agreement for purchase of bio-natural gas by a city gas distributor company in India. We have entered into the sales agreement with GGL for the bio-natural gas. Earlier, the cooperative was spending Rs 5 lakh monthly to dispose the green waste, but now it is targeting to earn Rs 15 lakh from sale of gas and liquid fertilizer. A grid pipeline is laid at the plant, which is fitted with the meter..