The Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources today (17 March) urged farmers to operate irrigation pumps between 11pm and 7am during the upcoming summer and irrigation season. This call, made in ...

The fire in the Sundarbans is still burning intermittently. To contain it, Forest Department officials are cutting firelines ...

India’s solar irrigation programme is going seriously astray. Off-grid solar pumps waste two-thirds of the energy they generate. Maharashtra’s solar agricultural feeders avoid energy waste but ...