Archive · 9 Jun 2025
Indian Farmers: Key to Clean Energy and Food Security
Indian farmers are becoming central to India's clean energy plans.
They already feed the country and boost the economy.
New policies are turning them into 'prosumers', producing and using their own energy through solar power and biofuels.
Farmers can also help by using less water and adopting farming methods that are good for the environment.
This can improve the soil, lower emissions, and secure a green future.
It's about providing farmers with the tools they need to succeed in this new role.
Indian farmers can play a key role in the clean energy transition.
Farmers are becoming 'prosumers' by producing and consuming energy.
India's irrigation practices waste water and electricity, but solutions exist.
Low carbon farming practices can improve soil health and lower emissions.
Modernizing agriculture empowers farmers through renewable energy access.
- Who
- Indian farmers are becoming central players in India's clean energy transition.
- What
- Indian farmers are poised to become the driving force of the nation's clean energy revolution, moving towards sustainable agriculture.
- When
- Published on June 9, 2025
- Where
- India
- Why
- To ensure food security and lead a global clean energy transition.
- Workforce in Agriculture
- 40% of India's workforce
- Contribution to GDP
- Nearly 18%
- Ethanol demand by 2025
- Set to cross 10 billion litres by 2025
- Policy promoting farmers as prosumers
- National Policy on Biofuels, 2018, and PM-KUSUM
- Main problem with irrigation
- Water and electricity waste
- Solutions for irrigation
- Low-water crops and DBTE
- LCF practices
- Crop rotation, agroforestry, green fertilizers