India has the world’s most arable land, and farmers currently irrigate their fields with more than 30 million agro pump-sets. Out of these, 22 million pump-sets are connected to the grid, around ...

India’s solar irrigation programme is going seriously astray. Off-grid solar pumps waste two-thirds of the energy they generate. Maharashtra’s solar agricultural feeders avoid energy waste but ...

Heifer Nigeria has launched a Finance Leasing guarantee scheme that gives farmers access to innovative Solar-powered Irrigation Pumps (SPIPs) which help all-year-round farming regardless of ...

Pangilinan-led Manila Electric Co. (Meralco), has turned over solar-powered mobile irrigation pumps to support around 140 farmers in the province of Nueva Ecija. The Lupao Pag-ahon Agriculture ...