Oorja Solutions

The organisation provides irrigation as a service directly on your farm, charging on a per-litre basis. It installs the community solar powered pump in a cluster model, maintains it, and employs local people to deploy the service. Conventionally, the farmer makes the initial investment of setting up a diesel-based pump, sources fuel to run the pump, and bears the added cost of maintaining the pump. With Oorja’s low-carbon solar-powered irrigation solution, the farmer pays only for the water used apart from the initial membership cost.

Oorja offers cooling as a service, either at the farm or market gate, on a per-crate-per-day arrangement. Oorja sets up a cooling unit at convenient locations to provide coldstorage facility to store about 5000 kg of fresh produce. This facility has a temperature and humidity control to ensure that the produce stays fresh for longer. Local farmers are employed to operate this facility.

Oorja offers a better alternative to traditional diesel-powered flour mills. The solar-powered agroprocessing unit uses clean energy to provide milling service to farmers at about 25% lesser cost. Milling is usually undertaken by farmer women who have to travel long distances to process the grains. With Oojjwal, the farmers now have easy access to a reliable mill at their doorstep.