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@article{189208,
        author = {Paavit Sidhu},
        title = {Should Solar Energy Be Made Compulsory for Large Farm Holdings in Punjab?},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {12},
        number = {7},
        pages = {6623-6637},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=189208},
        abstract = {Electricity subsidy played a huge role in helping agricultural intensive states like Punjab in driving India’s Green Revolution resulting in a two-fold increase in the total food grain production in Punjab between 1960 and 2000. Ironically the same measure has come in for a great deal of criticism and considered unsustainable. With India facing acute power shortage it is important that large farm holdings be incentivised to install and use renewable energy for farming, to reduce the pressure on the state and national exchequer. In this paper we cite the example of Punjab, widely acknowledged as the "Food Bowl of India," and bestowed with yearlong sunshine with good solar irradiance levels (4-7 kW/m²), ideal for solar power generation. This paper examines the advantages of enforcing a statewide ruling for farmers with large land holdings to switch to Solar energy.},
        keywords = {Agriculture, electricity subsidy, sustainable farming, solar energy, pollution, agrivoltaics, pollution, groundwater depletion.},
        month = {December},
        }