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Knowledge of Solar Energy Technology by the Farmers of Jaipur District in Rajasthan, India

2020; Excellent Publishers; Volume: 9; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.20546/ijcmas.2020.903.079

2319-7706

Neelesh Raghuwanshi, Jagdish Prasad Yadav, Ajit Kumar Ghoslya, Vikas Kumar, Sita Ram Bijarnia,

Energy and Environment Impacts

Solar energy technology is very important tool which can lowers worldwide carbon emissions. The present study was conducted in Jaipur district of Rajasthan. There are total sixteen tehsils in Jaipur district of Rajasthan, out of which, two tehsils namely Chomu and Amber were selected on the basis of maximum number of installed of solar pump. Ten villages from each selected tehsils were selected randomly by using proportional allocation technique. One hundred twenty (120) farmers were selected from twenty selected village by using proportional allocation technique. The study clearly showed that that majority of solar pump users (70.83 per cent) belonged to middle level of knowledge, followed by high level of knowledge (15.83 per cent). Whereas only13.34 per cent solar pump user were belonged to the low level of knowledge, respectively.