New Delhi, Aug. 3 -- The Centre is testing whether the country's vast agricultural landscape can be tapped to produce both food and electricity through agrivoltaics-a system that grows crops beneath elevated solar panels. With pilots already in place, advisories for the use of this tech may be launched as early as next kharif season, according to officials involved in the project. Of the almost 37 pilot studies running across the country, the benchmark Indian Agricultural Research Institute's (IARI) study has completed its first season of crop trials, with preliminary findings suggesting that while leafy vegetables appear well suited to cultivation under solar panels, cereals such as rice and wheat may be more sensitive to shading, a senior...