Farmers Reaping Dividends From Solar-Powered Agriculture

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The farmers from the village have tied up with traders in the Koyambedu wholesale market in Chennai to market the hybrid vegetables, including carrot, beetroot, and onions, the tomato is grown with the help of solar-powered pump sets.

Indeed, even as the normal farmer battles to adapt to the regularly expanding expense of contributions from one perspective and the unprofitable cost for their delivery, ambitious farmers in and around Martur in dry spell inclined Prakasam area have taken to solar powered agriculture combined with microscale irrigation system big to make attractive additions. The farmers, who have been customarily cultivating country vegetables, for example, brinjal, ladies’ fingers, bitter gourd, broad beans, cluster beans, have likewise embraced shade-net method for higher yields and bring a top-notch cost for their half and half create, for example, the European cucumber and capsicum with seeds imported from the Netherlands.

They used to spend about Rs 16,000 per section of land on diesel prior to stimulating their pump sets. Presently they get quality power for eight hours per day with a capital venture of just Rs 50,000 per unit because of the administration appropriation of Rs 4.50 lakh. They likewise require not go to their homesteads in the dead of the night similar to the training prior, say a gathering of ambitious ranchers from Bobbepalli town, concealed from the Chennai-Kolkata roadway.

“There is no marketing problem for these vegetables as they have a longer shelf life and better freshness,” they said in a conversation.

The farmers from the village have tied up with traders in the Koyambedu wholesale market in Chennai to market the hybrid vegetables, including carrot, beetroot, and onions, the tomato is grown with the help of solar-powered pump sets through a network of micro-irrigation system to grow more crop for every drop of water with water-soluble fertilizers.

“On harvesting, we send the vegetables to Chennai, 350 km away and payments are credited online to our bank account on delivery,” says a happy farmer D. Srinivasa Rao as he monitors his 30-acre farm on his CCTV.

They sell the vegetables locally when prices are almost the same in the Martur market, from where they are marketed by wholesale traders in different parts of the country, adds another farmer J. Haribabu.

D. Anjaneyulu, a product of a Business school in Visakhapatnam, has taken to farming as his profession at a time when his peers shied from agriculture in view of the uncertain returns.

“The returns are very much encouraging. But one has to toil and also do a smart work as well,” says the young farmer who has installed a high-value shade net for ensuring ideal agro-climatic condition for improved productivity. They have also adopted water conservation techniques to retain every drop of rainwater, adds yet another farmer J. Bullaiah.

Source: The Hindu