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Gujarat Village Farmers Embrace Solar Water Pumps

The farmers will be selling the surplus solar power to Madhya Gujarat Vij Company Limited, a state-owned power distribution company

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The sun is shining a little brighter for the farmers of Mujkuva village of Anklav taluka, nearly 17 km away from Anand, Gujarat. A group of 11 farmers in the village have turned their backs on conventional electricity and have taken up solar to irrigate their farms. This initiative, taken under Mujkuva Solar Pump Irrigators’ Cooperative Enterprise (SPICE), was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 30, 2018.

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