Various state governments like Maharashtra and Himachal Pradesh have also allocated funds for similar programs that aim to provide some relief to the farmers in the country’s distressed agriculture sector. Mercom had also reported that the Gujarat government had announced a similar program under which it would provide farmers with solar panels to generate solar power on their lands.
According to a joint study by Greenpeace India, Gujarat Energy Research Management Institute (GERMI), and IWMI-Tata Water Policy Program, if net-metered solar pumps are installed across all states for complete agricultural energy consumption, India would surpass its distributed solar goal of 40 GW by a wide margin.