India, Sept. 4 -- Farmers in Junnar's Hivare, a leopard-prone region, will now receive daytime electricity for their pumps under the state's Solar Agriculture Feeder Scheme 2.0, with a 4 MW solar project inaugurated on Wednesday for 12 acres of pasture land at Tejewadi.

The project, linked to the Hivare Budruk substation, will benefit around 2,000 farmers across 10 villages, including Tejewadi, Ozar, Hivare Budruk, Hivare Khurd, Shiroli Khurd, Shiroli Budruk, Kuran, Dholwadi and Bhorwadi.

Rajendra Pawar, director (HR), MSEDCL, who inaugurated the project, said, "Earlier, farmers had to risk their lives by going to the fields at night due to irregular power supply. With daytime electricity now available, farming will be safer and more re...