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Pumping to production: Powering India’s next phase of agrifood

By : Sustainability ..., Dec 13, 2019

In Bhavdi, a village in Maharashtra, 35-year-old Anita Kolte had to leave her family’s small plot of land to make a living, about $120 a year, well below the poverty line. Late last year, however, she started using an innovative solar solution to dry produce and sell it into...

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Government to announce 30% subsidy to milk farmers, co-ops in bid to go solar

By : Sustainability ..., Jan 10, 2019

The government is planning to shift the country’s entire milk sector to solar energy—from farmers onward to processors—through an upfront subsidy of 30%. A policy, in the works, will be...

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