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 ...

The use of solar power for irrigation is becoming popular as solar panel technologies continue to get better and cheaper. Using solar harnesses the energy from the sun, to pump water from wells, ...

Farmers who depend on rainwaters to grow Aman paddy in Dinajpur have been left distraught from early July owing to a drought-like situation in the absence of rains. But many growers have been busy ...

Indian farmers increasingly adopt solar pumps for irrigation, driven by sustainability, energy efficiency, and government support, says Oswal Pumps CMD.

For years, farmers in the area relied almost entirely on rainfall to sustain crops such as coffee, bananas and vegetables.

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 ...

The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) continues to install solar-powered irrigation systems (SPIS) to benefit more agrarian reform communities in the province. As of February, DAR’s project status ...

Farmers across the Zamboanga Peninsula have expressed their gratitude to President Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr. after the turnover of solar-powered pump irrigation projects (SPIPS) from the ...

Danilo Argamosa, a member of the Catandunganon Solar Pump Farmers Irrigators Association Inc., is one of the beneficiaries of the irrigation system. He decided to donate a parcel of land for the ...

The Chotanagpur Plateau in Eastern India, criss-crossed with streams, once was lush green even in winter. But increasingly erratic rainfall in recent years has made life much harder for the region’s ...

The Rural Electrification Agency (REA) has distributed solar irrigation pumps and solar power systems to rural farmers and SMEs in Kano.