Electrical Power

• On an average about 1/10th of the total electrical power generated in India, is consumed for the farm work.
• The largest use of electric power in the rural areas is for irrigation and domestic water supply.
• Besides this, the use of electric power in dairy industry, cold storage, fruit processing and cattle feed grinding has tremendously increased.

Advantages

• Very cheap form of power
• high efficiency
• can work at a stretch
• maintenance and operating cost is very low
• not affected by weather conditions.

Disadvantages

• Initial capital investment is high
• require good amount of technical knowledge and it causes great danger, if handled without care.