Agriculture · 2024 · Video
Agrivoltaics, crop and array on one land
Raised modules, shade-tolerant crops, and a land-use argument a collector can read. Cashew and laterite are not a European vegetable bed. The crop has to be the one that is actually there.
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Agrivoltaics puts an array high enough that a crop or grazing can continue underneath. The shade cuts some yield for sun-hungry plants and can help others in heat. The electrical gain is the same hectare producing kWh as well as a harvest.
Cheemeni is leased non-arable laterite at a cashew edge. That is not agrivoltaics; it is a ground mount on land the plantation already judged poor for trees. A true dual-use brief would start from the crop, the tractor paths, and the monsoon, then place the tables.
Where it can work in Kerala: spices and some vegetables under a raised carport-like structure; sheep under a plant; not a claim that every 30 MW park is a farm.
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