In an effort to extend farmers’ earnings and make them extra self-reliant, the Uttar Pradesh Energy Company (UPPCL) has negotiated an influence buy settlement with non-public builders (farmers) in six districts for 7 MW solar energy technology tasks as part of Kusum Yojana.
Underneath this, farmers will arrange solar energy technology facilities in barren or uncultivable fields with the assistance of assorted banks. The federal government led by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath can even present subsidies to them.
The solar energy technology facilities will probably be arrange in Bijnor, Hathras, Mahoba, Jalaun, Deoria and Lucknow districts.
M Devraj, Chairman, Uttar Pradesh Energy Company, stated right here in an announcement on Saturday that solar energy technology facilities of 1.5 MW will probably be arrange in village Vilaspur in Bijnor, 0.5 MW (500 kW) Mauhari in Hathras, one MW in Devgaon in Mahoba, one MW at Khuksis in Jalaun, one MW at Bariyarpur in Deoria and a 2 MW solar energy technology middle at Parseni in Lucknow district.
Like an official evaluation, this program will present farmers with two various kinds of advantages. They will first use a solar-powered irrigation pump as a substitute of the outdated diesel irrigation pumps. Second, by promoting the electrical energy produced by the photo voltaic plant put in within the farm to the ability suppliers, they will make a further Rs 80,000 per 12 months.
Underneath the Kusum Yojana, 5 hectares of land is required to construct a megawatt photo voltaic plant. The pumps supplied underneath this scheme will probably be rather than agricultural pumps operating on electrical energy and diesel.
