text: Solar harvests: How solar power is changing lives for Gujarat farmers, Energy News, ET EnergyWorld
  How solar power is changing lives for Gujarat farmers
  To enable farmers generate their own power for captive consumption and make an extra buck by selling the surplus power, Gujarat government has launched Suryashakti Kisan Yojna
  December 02, 2018, 08:10 IST
  New Delhi: In June 2015, Raman Parmar, 48, a farmer of Thamna village in Gujarat's Anand district had become the country's first solar power farmer. By connecting a solar powered irrigation pump to an electricity grid, Raman had received the first payment for his 'solar crop' in the form of a cheque of Rs 7,500 from the International Water Management Institute (IWMI).