Energy reliability allows farmers to focus on crop health and livestock management. Even short outages can disrupt feeding ...

Comet-ME has developed a solar-powered submersible borehole piston pump for off-grid communities and smallholders to use for irrigation and domestic purposes. The device, compatible with PV systems ...

Today, farm irrigation in India relies largely on conventional technologies, which in turn, use traditional sources of energy, predominantly thermal power. However, the supply of electricity generated ...

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 ...

There’s a growing trend in the crop-watering business — converting fuel-powered irrigation pumps to electricity. “We used to be the Cadillac of irrigation systems … If you could afford it, you had an ...

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 ...

The Indian government is taking concrete steps to reduce reliance on diesel and electric irrigation pumps for agricultural activities, and is pushing for solar-powered systems, which can lower costs ...

Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board (BREB) plans to install 2,000 solar irrigation pumps under a project -- allowing farmers to sell their unconsumed electricity to the national grid. The solar ...

The cost of electrical power can be a large component of an annual farming budget in California—for all irrigation methods.

If you have any interest in the off grid solar space, you would certainly be aware of Bangladesh’s success in promoting solar home systems. At the last count, the country had installed over 3.8 ...