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Agri-voltaic system to increase land productivity and income

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Title Agri-voltaic system to increase land productivity and income
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Creator Santra, P.
Singh, R.K.
Jain, D.
Yadav, O.P.
 
Subject Agri-voltaic system
Crop cultivation
PV generation
Rainwater harvesting
Solar farming
 
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Agri-voltaic system showed as a potential option to grow crops and generate renewable energy
from a single land unit. The system is best suitable for those areas where solar irradiation is
available in plenty and land productivity potential is comparatively low. Additional advantage of
agri-voltaic system is its ability to harvest rainwater from the top of Photovoltic modules. The
harvested rainwater can be used for cleaning of deposited dust on Photovoltic modules and to
provide supplemental irrigation to crops. The agri-voltaic system can be connected to grid through
net metering system to supply te Photovoltic generated electricity and earn an income of ` 7.5
lakh acre/year. Otherwise, the off-grid agri-voltaic system can be used to operate solar Photovoltic
pumping system in farmers' field. Apart from income by selling the Photovoltic generated
electricity, farmers can also earn income from crop production. Overall, the land equivalent ratio
can be improved by installation of agri-voltaic system in farmers' field.
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Date 2019-05-03T11:38:43Z
2019-05-03T11:38:43Z
2018-09-01
 
Type Article
 
Identifier Not Available
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/19152
 
Language English
 
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Publisher Indian Council of Agricultural Research