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JHARKHAND: Lily Purty, from one of the remotest villages in Jharkhand’s Khunti, never thought that her financial condition could improve despite having adequate land for farming.
Due to lack of irrigation facilities and unpredictable rains, most of her land remained unused. Government officials introduced Purty to the Jharkhand Opportunities for Harnessing Rural Growth (JOHAR) project.
It helps tribal women to get a dependable irrigation system, enabling them to diversify their crops through clean energy technology in the form of the solar-powered irrigation system.
Cycle-mounted solar pumps can be moved easily
Purty has succeeded in tripling her income within a few months. What Purty did was instead of planting only one crop in a year, she went for multiple cultivations, making use of all the land available to her with the help of irrigation facilities under the project.