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Under the courtesy noon, Devabhai Sawadia, for generations, slowly increases the salt container. The sweeping movements of the salt sweep and the quiet of the nearby dishes are quiet around.
This is a new development. Salty salted salty brine, who worked hard for years, evaporate and produce salt crystals, and there were high-level diesel cars, collapsing in square areas to produce and produce salt crystals.
Now it is a sun panels that intensify the widespread arid desert that strengthens the pumps.
The transition to the power of sunlight in the Kutch region of Western Gujarat State of India has changed Sawadiya’s life sharply.
“It has been a profit for years, for years, for years, for years,” 59-year-old farmer “CBC.
“Before the solar panels, there was enough money to eat, and there was no more rupees.”
Naders called Agariyas, nomads nomaging, agariyas, moving from the villages of Kutch outdoor, Monsoon rains were pulled back and approached salt swamps for eight-month harvest season.
The world’s third largest salt manufacturer, India, who needs the needs, does not have the owner of Marshland where they are working for generations.
To help government lands, about 30 percent of the salt of India, mainly for table salt for each year.
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The solar panels increase in the salt plains of West India, and farmers have completely changed the technology of CBC’s South Asian correspondent Salimah Shivji.
Until the solar panels receive help, farmers will start with their salt pans, every season, each season, from salt traders, received 15 or this barrel required by old pumps.
Boredom expenses can go to 300,000 Indian rupees or about $ 5,000, up to 5,000 CDN in a season.
“He will return with salt bags, but nothing left – not enough money,” said Sawadia.
Problems with diesel
Permanent smoke and toxins from diesel “created so many problems,” he said. His hands were often black in black with cars.
Sawadia’s two solar panels, young grandchildren, Kushti, have a head position next to the tent of the family. There is still a diesel pump, only used as a backup when the night or cloudy.
“The fog is a comfort because the smoke is standing,” said Sawadia’s wife Jasiben Sawadia.
“Life was better after the sun.”
The family was able to build a new house in the village and pay his son’s wedding, because for a few thousand dollars, they save every year without getting diesel fuel every year.
“I don’t have to take money from everyone” because there is freedom, “said Jasiben Sawadia.
Hefty government subsidy
The majority of about 5,000 agent family working in the desert of the salt desert benefited from a large submission covering 80 percent of the price of a solar panel from the state and the federal governments.
The initiative consumes India’s re-renewable energy, when trying to depend on the dependence of coal dependence, India’s PUSH.
The South Asian country still depends on the coal – fossil fossil fuels dirty – for more than 70 percent of its power.
As a developing country of India as a developing country, the authorities are in the right to allow the opening of coal-fired power plants, so the pure energy is a priority.
According to the government’s press office, India’s solar energy sector, along with solar energy, increases from more than 38 Gigawatt, along with solar energy. Less than three in ten years ago sat three Gigawatt.
‘The output is very good’
The country is aimed at building large-scale solar farms, millions of panels in line and columns.
“The costs of farmers are close to zero and the output is very good,” said local Ghari-Rakshak Manch for the public for years voluntarily voluntarily voluntarily.
He grew up in a agaria family in the desert and watched his father always worked for less profit.
Kutch’ın Solar Panels in Small Rann and now allow the money they have earned, it also has better quality of salt produced because there is more time to crystalize.
Switching to the renewable energy also made community bonds.
“With diesel, farmers should always pay attention to the car 24 hours a day,” Somera said. If there was a family function, agarias would have to jump.
“Now the sun is working on its own and can see their families and participate in weddings.”
Subsidy strikes remain
Although the benefits for Somera and his colleagues are open, he convinced numerous demonstrations and a large number of “sinking” for numerous demonstrations and subsidies.
He lasted five years, but in the mass affect, the subsidy is no longer offered.
“The entire turning of the continued operation and poverty, (agarias) can break it in two to three years,” he said, Pancti Jog, a program director with Whitening Heet-Rakshak Manch.
Most of the family has at least one solar panel, but the subsidy is increasingly, the majority of farmers will help in the form of the panel.
Isolated life
Life in a wide melted desert, surrounded by salt swamps, is still very difficult with a sharp sense of isolation.
No medical clinic or family doctors and children go to school on abandoned buses, parked in the middle of the landscapes, parked, parked buses.
In a spring afternoon, children sitting in small tables in the interior of the vehicle, children under several years old, while waiting for the teacher, a few-year-old children gathered on one of the buses.
There is a desperate desire for more opportunities between many of the salty farmers and provides part of the sun.
34-year-old Jerabhai Dhamecha, three daughters and one son, are all in primary and secondary school.
When he made a large salt bowl, he gathered the salt crystals on one side, the family of solar panels – a new brick house in the village, a new tractor, the motorcycle brought.
‘My grandfather didn’t have anything’
Solar energy said, “We could not get a bike” Dhamecha, 34.
“My grandfather had nothing to do. They carried water and carried him (the fields).”
Now you earn about 60 percent more profit without the cost of diesel.
A fellow Agariya welcomed similar thinking because he eagerly demonstrated how the sun-working water pump works.
The 58-year-old Kalubhai Sureela, the presence of the panels, the presence of an additional son or father, returned to the return or his father to help the family win a new salary.
“Our grandparents did not feel anything but sadness in this wilderness. He was fighting the lives,” said Surela.
“But now there is pure joy here after solar energy.”
