{"id":467781,"date":"2022-02-14T09:10:02","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T03:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=467781"},"modified":"2022-02-14T10:11:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T04:41:58","slug":"centre-sets-target-to-replace-diesel-with-renewable-in-agriculture-by-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/centre-sets-target-to-replace-diesel-with-renewable-in-agriculture-by-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre sets target to replace Diesel with Renewable in Agriculture by 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Central government has set the target for replacing diesel with renewable energy in the agricultural sector by 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The Union Minister for Power, New and Renewable energy, R K Singh on Friday said this is in line with the government\u2019s commitment to increase the share of non-fossil fuels by 2030 and become a net zero emitter by 2070. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;India will replace diesel with renewables to achieve the target of zero diesel use in the agricultural sector by 2024,\u201d said a statement by the ministry of power.<\/p>\n<p>The Central government is already running a scheme to solarise the agriculture sector through KUSUM scheme. This would entail solar-run irrigation systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central government has set the target for replacing diesel with renewable energy in the agricultural sector by 2024. The Union Minister for Power, New and Renewable energy, R K Singh on Friday said this is in line with the government\u2019s commitment to increase the share of non-fossil fuels by 2030 and become a net zero emitter by 2070. &#8220;India will replace diesel with renewables to achieve the target of zero diesel use in the agricultural sector by 2024,\u201d said a statement by the ministry of power. The Central government is already running a scheme to solarise the agriculture sector [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467781","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=467781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}