Life is ‘better after the sun’: Harvesting sunlight gives Indian salt farmers and benefits
Under punishing lunches, Devabhaawai Sawaria slowly removes the salt pan from his family for generations. It is silent surrounding her, without the swelling motives of her salt and soft sound, the lying of cleansed dishes.
That is a new development. For many years, there was a big equipment, beating up burning machines running a salty brine holding down the square fields to get out and produce salt crystals.
Now, the sun’s panels finish the Great Arid Desert, enabling pumps.
The switch to change in many hours of sunlight light in the Kutch District of Western Gujarat State in India has changed the life of Sawadiah.
The 59-year-old farmer tells 59-year-old news reporting 5: “Sun, after years of energy,” a 59-year-old farmer tells CBC News.
“Before [we got] Sun’s panels, there was enough money for food and not on top of rupee. “
Omadic farmers salt, called the villages of all Gujarat’s state in the Rann of Kutch Desert, decided with the salt tents of the salts of salts.
They do not have a Marishland owner who worked for generations to make salt in India, the world’s largest salt producer.
The government’s country return for yearly will help produce about 30 percent of India’s salt found across the country, the salt of the table.
The sun’s panels increase across the western north of the northernmost north, and the farmers tell the South Ashia author in South Salimate Technology to completely change their lives.
Until they get help from buying solar panels and put them on their salt panels, farmers would start each period of debt, forced to be more praisded in salt traders so they could buy their older pumps.
Borrowed costs may increase to 300,000 rupees, or approximately $ 5,000 CDN, season.
“We will come back with bags full of salt, but they left without any of us – not enough money,” Zawadiah said.
Problems with diesel
The continuous smoke from the diesel made them “get sick, and caused many problems, ‘Add. Her hands were often dark to find the equipment.
Two of the two solar panels now have a chief position near the family tent, where his young grandson, is a meal, is playing. There is still one diesel pump only used as a backup at night or when it is cloudy.
“It is a relief to us that the smoke stood,” said Joadiah’s wife, Jassiben Sawadiah.
“Life has been better after the sun.”
The family was able to build a new house in their homeland and paid their son’s marriage for thousands of rands now save year without the need to buy gasoline.
There is freedom because “we do not have to borrow money from another person,” said Jassiben Sawadiah.
Government Government Funding
Many 5,000 families Agariah worked in saltwater and spend a great deal from the Gujarat State and Federal Government-level governments.
The step is best fits in India’s depression to invest more in renewable power, while trying a little to place it in the country of leaning at Malah.
The South Asia countries still depend on Malah – the dirt Fouels Fossil – more than 70 percent of the productive energy.
Officials have also quickly controlled that India, like a developing country, has its last country rights authorizing crops of pornography to open, just as they are prioritizing pure power.
However, in the field of power in India weed, by the solar energy is now superior to 108 gigawatts, according to Press’s Press Bureau. Seated under three gigawatts in the past 10 years.
‘Exclusion is very good’
The country also focuses on building large solar farms, collections of millions of pants and columns produce pure energy.
“With a solar, farmers’ costs are close to Zero and out of zero well,” Baratbai Selera, who has donated for many years with NO Agariah Hetshak Manch, encouraging the salt community.
He grew up in Agariah’s family in the wilderness of salt and looked at his father regularly for less profit.
The solar panels in the sun’s small KCHN, and the money they save now, allow farmers to increase the harvest season, which means the salt they produce better.
Moving into renewable energy is again repairing public bonds.
“In Diesel, farmers should always find the eye on a machine 24 hours a day,” says the user. If there was a family work, the Agariah had to be overwhelmed.
“Now the sun works itself and can go and see their families and to weddings.”
The impact of the counterfeit is always
However, although the benefits were noticed on the Somera and their colleague, he said it took many shows and a lot of deception to be ‘government officials before the government subsidy was allowed.
It took five years, but the support is no longer given, even though the great impact.
“All loop of abuse and poverty occurring to generation after generation, [the agariyas] You can break in two to three years, “said Pankti Jog, a program director with Agariah Hetshak Manch.
He said most of the families now have one panel, but by the support is passed, insurance aid program, in case it heals a panel or tired, it will help most of the farmers.
Life in the classification
Life in a large group surrounded by Marmang salt is still very difficult, in a great sense of separation.
There are no medical clinics or doctors and children who go to school by left buses, along with their motors removed, suddenly in the day of sunburn.
One afternoon, twelve children are full of in one of the buses, sitting on the small tables in the car, with old children leading vocabulary check while waiting for the teacher to come.
There is a desperate desire for many opportunities between many salt farmers, and the sun provides some answer.
Jerababai Dhamecha, 34, has three daughters and one son, all in the primary and middle school.
When there is a grave in salt, he gathered salty crystals on one side, calculated what the solar is made from the family – a new brick house in his hometo, a new tractor, a motorcycle.
‘My grandfather is empty’
Before changing solar power, “we could not buy a bike,” said Dhamecha, 34.
“My grandfather is empty. They used to carry water and bring you [to the fields] on foot. ”
Now he does about 60 percent of the additional benefit, at no diesel expenses he has considered.
Agariah went into the same thought, as he zealously showed how his powerful day the sun was working.
KalukaA Welve, 58, compared the panels of finding the additional son or to have their father, who died, returning to the family for a completely new salary.
“Our grandmothers don’t hear anything without grief. Their health was the struggle,” said Sululu.
But now, after the sun’s energy, there is a pure happiness here. ”
