{"id":297025,"date":"2019-10-19T11:42:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T06:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=297025"},"modified":"2019-10-19T11:52:55","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T06:22:55","slug":"solar-plan-to-boost-irrigation-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/solar-plan-to-boost-irrigation-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar plan to boost irrigation facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a view to provide proper irrigation facilities and other amenities to the agricultural sector the Government has initiated a scheme for farmers for the installation of solar pumps and grid connected solar power plants.  Through this scheme the farmers will receive grant for 90% for 3 HP capacity and 85 % for 3 to 5 HP capacity solar pumps. <\/p>\n<p>According to sources, the departments of forest, agriculture and public health will work in collaboration to popularize this scheme among farmers. The sources said that the scheme is expected to provide financial and water security to farmers. Apart from saving in electricity bills the solar pumps will also play a vital role in reducing pollution and thereby protecting the environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a view to provide proper irrigation facilities and other amenities to the agricultural sector the Government has initiated a scheme for farmers for the installation of solar pumps and grid connected solar power plants. Through this scheme the farmers will receive grant for 90% for 3 HP capacity and 85 % for 3 to 5 HP capacity solar pumps. According to sources, the departments of forest, agriculture and public health will work in collaboration to popularize this scheme among farmers. The sources said that the scheme is expected to provide financial and water security to farmers. Apart from saving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,244,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}