One fascinating sight worth looking for in the outskirts of Salem on the hight way to Coimbatore, is for these parking stations of long trailer trucks carrying the blades of the wind mill. The 200 hundred feet single blades of the wind mill is a demanding job for the drivers. From Chennai to Trichi, which takes about 12 hours by road is covered by these trucks over seven to ten days.
There has been a growing interest in commissioning wind farms. Foe the last ten years acres of land under paddy cultivation or other crops are getting converted to wind farms in the districts of Trichi, Dindigul, Tirunelveli, etc. in Tamil Nadu. There is commercial gain in the long run and a significant contribution to turn to renewable energy!
Now that majority of the villages in India have access to electricity, there is a deliberate push by the government to produce electricity form wind mills to create energy for the industrial bloom that is taking place in the country.
The farmers give away their land on nominal prices as farming has become enormously burdensome and a debt trap.
Some economists and agricultural scientists, have begun to raise questions about the wisdom of farm land being converted for industrial purpose. There is a vast pool of uncultivated land! Whys should that be offered for industrial purposes!
The farmers being in distress mode and debt trapped, seem to be happy to get whatever price they can and the industrialists use the the distress for their advantage.
Hurry for renewable energy initiative. Would the industrialists who buy the land from farmers offer them a monthly pension as the profits would go up incrementally and land value would appreciate in multiple fold in the next ten years!
I wish, the industrialists would offer the benefit of the corporate social responsibility to the farmers form whom they purchased the land by offering them a monthly pension!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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