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Nitin Bassi

• Solarizing groundwater irrigation in India: a growing debate

  <p>India is on a path to reduce its carbon emission intensity with a major thrust on increasing the grid-connected solar photovoltaic capacity. However, the carbon footprint in agriculture is on the rise.

  • 09/07/2017

  • International Journal of Water Resources Development
  • • Groundwater Irrigation
    • Solar Energy
    • India
    • Renewable Energy
    • Energy Efficiency
    • Subsidies
    • Diesel

• Irrigation and energy nexus- Solar pumps are not viable

  Groundwater ha s emerged as the mainstay of irrigated agriculture in India. However, ineffective institutional arrangements for its management have resulted in both groundwater over-exploitation and wasteful

  • 07/03/2015

  • Economic and Political Weekly
  • • Groundwater Irrigation
    • Energy
    • Solar Energy
    • India
    • Diesel
    • Subsidies
    • Rajasthan
    • Wells
    • Farmers
    • Agriculture
    • Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE)
    • Energy Policy
• 

  Irrigation management transfer in India: the processes and constraints

  Over the last decade, various policy reforms have been carried out in India

  • 01/01/2010

  • Institute for Resource Analysis and Policy
  • • Agriculture
    • Water Management
    • Irrigation
    • Farmers
    • India
    • Gujarat
    • Madhya Pradesh
    • Maharashtra
    • Hyderabad
    • Institute for Resource Analysis and Policy
    • Nitin Bassi
    • Dams/ Irrigation