{"id":27817,"date":"2024-11-08T09:01:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T03:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27817"},"modified":"2025-04-08T12:32:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T07:02:53","slug":"agrivoltaic-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/agrivoltaic-farming\/","title":{"rendered":"Agrivoltaic Farming"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Agrivoltaic Farming:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the practice of <strong>growing crops underneath solar panels.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The panels are positioned 2-3 metres off the ground and sit at an angle of 30 degrees, providing shade and offering crops protection from the weather.<\/li>\n<li>This farming primarily focuses on the simultaneous use of land for both agriculture and solar energy generation.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s also sometimes referred to as <strong>agrisolar, dual use solar, low impact solar<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Solar panels have to sometimes be elevated or suspended to allow plants to grow beneath them.<\/li>\n<li>Another option is putting them on the roofs of greenhouses. This allows enough light and rainwater to reach the crops, as well as providing access for farm machinery.<\/li>\n<li>It uses poles or frames to mount solar panels on the ground, leaving space for crops to grow under or around them. Some solar panels can also rotate or form a canopy to adjust the amount of sunlight and shade on the crops.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Advantages<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>This <strong>increases land-use efficiency<\/strong>, as it lets solar farms and agriculture share ground, rather than making them compete against one another.<\/li>\n<li>And certain crops appear to thrive when grown in such environments, according to a number of recent studies.<\/li>\n<li>The shade from the panels protects vegetables from heat stress and water loss.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is a solar farm?<\/h3>\n<p>A solar farm is a renewable energy source that does not emit carbon dioxide (CO2) thanks to its environmentally-friendly production process.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsonair.gov.in\/agrivoltaic-farming-focuses-on-simultaneous-use-of-land-for-agriculture-solar-energy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Agrivoltaic Farming Focuses On Simultaneous Use Of Land For Agriculture &amp; Solar Energy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agrivoltaic Farming is the practice of growing crops underneath solar panels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}