Renewable Energy Towards Sustainability

Abstract

Energy is the basic necessity for human being to survive. Demand for daily energy requirements creates pressure on finite source of fossil fuel based energy, which is rapidly declining in different parts of the world. Agriculture is one sector, which consumes about 7-8% of total energy consumption of India. Pumping of irrigation water, use of heavy machineries for different farm operations, processing and value addition of farm produces etc. are major activities by which energy is consumed in agriculture sector. With the advancement of food production system from agrarian to a futuristic technology-driven system, there has been rapid increase in energy use in agriculture Agriculture sector has great scope in meeting this renewable energy target of the country and can be achieved through major two ways viz., the replacement of fossil fuel based farm operations with renewable energy sources and second is the contribution in renewable energy generation from agriculture sector.