Gujarat’s solar irrigation cooperative has a solution for India’s groundwater crisis
Solar pumps can sell excess power instead of drawing more water than they need to
Phodabhai Parmar, a 72-year-old farmer, sits on a charpai sipping tea as solar panels gleam in the fields behind him. Parmar is one of six farmers who have formed the world’s first solar irrigation cooperative in Dhundi village in Gujarat’s Kheda district, about 90 km from Ahmedabad…Read More