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Solar-Powered Plant Protection Equipment: Perspective and Prospects
by Desikan Ramesh, Mohanrangan Chandrasekaran, Raga Palanisamy Soundararajan, Paravaikkarasu Pillai Subramanian, Vijayakumar Palled and Deivasigamani Praveen Kumar
Energies 2022, 15(19), 7379; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15197379 - 8 Oct 2022
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The major challenges in sustainable and profitable agriculture are developing high-yielding crop varieties and reducing crop losses. Presently, there are significant crop losses due to weed/bird/insect/animal attacks. Among the various renewable energy sources, solar energy is utilized for different agricultural operations, especially in [...] Read more.
The major challenges in sustainable and profitable agriculture are developing high-yielding crop varieties and reducing crop losses. Presently, there are significant crop losses due to weed/bird/insect/animal attacks. Among the various renewable energy sources, solar energy is utilized for different agricultural operations, especially in plant protection applications. Solar photovoltaic (PV) devices present a positive approach to sustainable crop production by reducing crop loss in various ways. This might result in the extensive use of PV devices in the near future. PV-based plant protection equipment/devices are primarily utilized in protecting crops from birds, weeds, or insects. Solar-powered plant protection equipment such as light traps, bird scarers, sprayers, weeders, and fencing are gaining interest due to their lower operational costs, simple design, no fuel requirements, and zero carbon emissions. Most of these PV devices require 12 V rechargeable batteries with different currents to meet the load, which varies from 2 to 1500 W. This paper briefly discusses the applications of solar-powered plant protection devices in sustainable agriculture and their future prospects. Full article
(This article belongs to the Section A2: Solar Energy and Photovoltaic Systems)
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