{"id":335447,"date":"2020-02-03T12:37:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T07:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=335447"},"modified":"2020-02-03T12:59:54","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T07:29:54","slug":"budget-2020-extra-earnings-for-farmers-through-solar-pumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/budget-2020-extra-earnings-for-farmers-through-solar-pumps\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2020: Extra earnings for farmers through solar pumps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a bid to replicate a Gujarat experience of solar pumps on national scale, the Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a major initiative towards creating an additional income source for the farmers through solar power generation.<\/p>\n<p>In her Budget speech for 2020-21 on Saturday, the Finance Minister stated that 20 lakh farmers across the country will be provided solar pumps in a bid to encourage solar generation on the barren land with the farmers.<\/p>\n<p>Stating that &#8220;anna dataa can be urja dataa&#8221; or farmer can become energy generator, Sitharaman stated that there have been experiments where farmers have linked pump-sets to Solar Energy. &#8220;We aim to provide 20 lakh farmers to set up solar pumps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a bid to replicate a Gujarat experience of solar pumps on national scale, the Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a major initiative towards creating an additional income source for the farmers through solar power generation. In her Budget speech for 2020-21 on Saturday, the Finance Minister stated that 20 lakh farmers across the country will be provided solar pumps in a bid to encourage solar generation on the barren land with the farmers. Stating that &#8220;anna dataa can be urja dataa&#8221; or farmer can become energy generator, Sitharaman stated that there have been experiments where farmers have linked [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335447","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=335447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}