Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the energy industry. This article is more than 10 years old. Pashupathy Gopalan, President of SunEdison for the Asia ...

Ripan Deb, a 37 year old farmer putting water to his field through a solar-powered water pump which was installed in his field with the help of the Government of Tripuras subsidised policy in ...

Developer Loop Energia has built a 1.2 MW offgrid solar plant that now serves a center-pivot irrigation system in the Brazilian state of Bahia. The project reportedly enables local farmers to double ...

Solar panels are no longer just lining barn roofs and field edges, they are rising directly above rows of vegetables, ...

This story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360 and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. There is a solar-powered revolution going on in the fields of India. By 2026, more than 3 million ...

The micro-scale irrigation project, one of the renewable energy intervention strategies targeting smallholder farmers, has run into headwinds, with farmers saying it is not performing to their ...

JHARKHAND, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Chotanagpur Plateau in eastern India, criss-crossed with streams, once was lush green even in winter. But increasingly erratic rainfall in recent ...

Around 45 percent of Bangladesh’s work force is employed in agriculture, which represents an important sector in the country’s economy. Farmers use irrigation pumps to ensure adequate and consistent ...

Nearly half of irrigation costs in Bangladesh are due to irrigation, and the diesel pumps that currently power irrigation networks are responsible for 1.6% of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions.

CAWAYAN, Masbate — The National Irrigation Administration in Bicol allotted P20 million worth of first solar-powered irrigation projects here to help the farmers boost their palay production. The ...