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distribution companies (Discoms) for them to execute load surveys 3.1
to develop load profiles, initiate a demand response by augmenting
peak demands, and ensuring better management in off-peak load.
Interventions such as dynamic pricing based on demand and supply
in real time, smart metering and leveraging ICT to inform consumers
about prices and usage are being mooted. With technologies, such
as advanced metering, it is possible for Discoms to implement
DSM through demand response. To build DSM cells in Discoms, an
amount of INR 300 crore (USD 50 million) has been estimated for the
Twelfth Plan.
Agriculture DSM is another strategy that will operate through
a public private partnership (PPP) mobilizing resources through
financial mechanisms like Venture Capital Fund (VCF) and Partial
Risk Guarantee Fund (PRGF). During the Eleventh Five Year Plan,
agriculture DSM resulted in 97 MU of annual energy saving potential
assessed across eight different states, covering about 20,885 pump sets.
1.4.6 Agriculture
Innovation and R&D
India’s agricultural sector, once in a state of food crises in the 1960s
was able to move towards a state of food surplus by the 1990s.
The underlying factors for this development have been massive
public investments in irrigation, rural infrastructure, and most
importantly, agricultural research. R&D in the agricultural sector is
capable of increasing farm production, providing greater employment
opportunities, lowering food prices, and reducing the vulnerability to
climate change threats (Hazell & Haddad 2001).
In India, the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) and the Department
of Agricultural Research and Education (DARE) has set up the Indian
Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), which coordinates, guides,
and manages research and education in the agriculture sector for
various themes including horticulture, fisheries, animal sciences, and
natural resource management. The council has about 100 institutes,
71 agricultural universities, and 642 Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs)
spread across the country. The major thrust areas of agricultural
research in the country as articulated in the Twelfth Plan (2012–17) is
for ICAR to focus on challenges of rain-fed areas and State Agricultural
Universities to build technical human resources and to adopt applied
research to solve local problems. There is also a shift of approach from
commodities-based research to agro-climatic zone-based research
which is informed by stakeholder priorities (CBGA 2015).
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to develop load profiles, initiate a demand response by augmenting
peak demands, and ensuring better management in off-peak load.
Interventions such as dynamic pricing based on demand and supply
in real time, smart metering and leveraging ICT to inform consumers
about prices and usage are being mooted. With technologies, such
as advanced metering, it is possible for Discoms to implement
DSM through demand response. To build DSM cells in Discoms, an
amount of INR 300 crore (USD 50 million) has been estimated for the
Twelfth Plan.
Agriculture DSM is another strategy that will operate through
a public private partnership (PPP) mobilizing resources through
financial mechanisms like Venture Capital Fund (VCF) and Partial
Risk Guarantee Fund (PRGF). During the Eleventh Five Year Plan,
agriculture DSM resulted in 97 MU of annual energy saving potential
assessed across eight different states, covering about 20,885 pump sets.
1.4.6 Agriculture
Innovation and R&D
India’s agricultural sector, once in a state of food crises in the 1960s
was able to move towards a state of food surplus by the 1990s.
The underlying factors for this development have been massive
public investments in irrigation, rural infrastructure, and most
importantly, agricultural research. R&D in the agricultural sector is
capable of increasing farm production, providing greater employment
opportunities, lowering food prices, and reducing the vulnerability to
climate change threats (Hazell & Haddad 2001).
In India, the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) and the Department
of Agricultural Research and Education (DARE) has set up the Indian
Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), which coordinates, guides,
and manages research and education in the agriculture sector for
various themes including horticulture, fisheries, animal sciences, and
natural resource management. The council has about 100 institutes,
71 agricultural universities, and 642 Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs)
spread across the country. The major thrust areas of agricultural
research in the country as articulated in the Twelfth Plan (2012–17) is
for ICAR to focus on challenges of rain-fed areas and State Agricultural
Universities to build technical human resources and to adopt applied
research to solve local problems. There is also a shift of approach from
commodities-based research to agro-climatic zone-based research
which is informed by stakeholder priorities (CBGA 2015).
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