aoû 30, 2016
Gujarat solar cooperative: Model for generating additional farm income, conserving ground water, says experts | The Indian Express
"Experts pointed out that with state governments like Gujarat providing 95 percent subsidy to farmers to install solar water irrigation pumps, farmers in the near future might end up overdrawing water using freely available power and destroy existing ground-water aquifers.
'Another advantage of this model is the minimal land footprint since farmers can continue to use land under solar panels to grow crops,' Shah added about the project that is being run at Dhundi with support from IWMI and CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security."