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All India Coordinated
Research Project on |
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Technologies Developed/ Available at coordinating cell, cooperating centres |
Dependence of Indian agriculture on commercial sources of energy particularly fossil fuels increased considerably since beginning of the green revolution during mid 60’s. Wide spread energy crisis as a result of Gulf War during late 70’s gave big boost to conservation of commercial sources of energy and development of alternate and renewable sources of energy. Huge quantity of biomass is generated in crop production activity throughout the year. The biomass meets most of the energy requirements for rural domestic activities and major requirements of animal feed and manure for crop production. An integrated approach for development of appropriate technology and management practices for utilization of biomass, solar energy and wind energy may minimize dependence of rural people on commercial sources of energy. Keeping this in view, Indian Council of Agricultural Research launched an All India Co-ordinated Research Project on Renewable Sources of Energy for Agriculture and Agro-based Industries during 1983. The project is being pursued at 16 cooperating centres located in different agro climatic zones and is coordinated from Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Bhopal (India). A fairly good amount of data for design, development and evaluation of various renewable energy technologies has been collected / generated and many useful technologies have been developed for applications in production agriculture, rural living and farm product processing. Information about the project and important technologies developed and found working satisfactory through users’ level trials are given in this web site. |
Coordinating Cell
(Renewable Energy) Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi |
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