This article is authored by Aruna Sharma, practitioner development economist and retd secretary, Government of India.

Solar-powered water pumps can provide a sustainable solution to the global water crisis by tapping into vast groundwater resources. While solar pumps offer significant benefits, their widespread use ...

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Pashupathy Gopalan, President of SunEdison for the Asia Pacific and Middle East regions believes that solar power is the future for irrigated agriculture, and the market could be huge. In fact, the ...

On his six-acre farm in Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh, Sanjeev Kumar, a 42-year-old farmer, beams with quiet pride as he points to the glinting blue solar panels powering his irrigation pump. Installed two ...

India’s drive to install millions of solar-powered irrigation pumps has worthy intentions. The government aims to lift farm productivity and boost rural income while relieving the state of a ...

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Nigerian farmers are no doubt excited with the prospect of expanding their capacity to grow more crops and become richer as the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) has ...

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Ghana has taken a significant step towards harnessing the power of solar energy to drive economic growth and development, with the Minister of Energy and Green Transition, John Abdulai Jinapor, ...

India’s drive to install millions of solar-powered irrigation pumps has worthy intentions. The government aims to lift farm productivity and boost rural income while relieving the state of a ...