Summary:
This time, we got 600 solar pumps, which will be handed over to farmers as per the norms. In this financial year, government had increased target of providing solar pumps to the farmers. Strap: Subsidised solar pumps becoming a rage among farmersBijnor: Farmers in Bijnor are increasingly opting for solar pumps to irrigate their fields due to the subsidy being provided by the government, and also because of the erratic power supply in rural belts. In the last three years, the government distributed 450 solar pumps in Bijnor. This year, as many as 3,700 farmers had applied for subsidized solar pumps and 600 got them.The government is providing a subsidy of 70% on these pumps which are run on renewable source of energy..