Reforming Agriculture Using Advanced Renewable Energy Alternatives

Abstract

Use of advance farming techniques in recent years aided agriculture sector to cope up with the increasing demands of food and other products. Moreover, these new interventions added additional support to fossil fuels and also maintain clean environment especially in terms of reduction of carbon di oxide. Intervention of renewable energy in agriculture processes such as solar dryer, water heater, irrigation etc. improves the efficiency and energy yield. Integration of greenhouse integrated semitransparent photo voltaic thermal (GiSPVT) system with air/water collectors and Earth Air Heat Exchangers (EAHE) has become privilege to the farmers as it can increase/decrease the temperature inside the greenhouse to maintain the ambient temperature during harsh climate conditions. Further, integration of GiSPVT with precision agriculture (PA) has become important factor in sustainable agricultural which adapts a strategy for advanced data analysis, communication and information techniques in the decision-making process like application of water, fertilizer, pesticide, seed, fuel, labor, etc. and not only helps to increase yield but also reducing water and aided to reduce environmental impacts.