00:00These farmers are flipping the script on agriculture.
00:03In southern Ethiopia, more than 500 farmers are making the shift towards solar power.
00:08For years, growing food depended on expensive diesel generators to pump up groundwater for the fields.
00:14When fuel prices rose or supplies went out, farming became a struggle.
00:19Now solar-powered irrigation is changing the game.
00:22The farmers pay service fees to the government who constructed the system.
00:25Farmers are now cutting their energy costs by up to 75%, growing crops year-round and producing harvests more often
00:33than before.
00:34And it's not about food.
00:35Some families are now using small solar panels to light their homes, charge phones, and help their children study after
00:43dark.
00:43Currently, six villages are enjoying solar sites like this, with more already planned.
00:48As Africa's population grows and energy demand rises, could decentralized solar power become the engine of the continent's future?
00:56Also, with free energy and energy demand is being purchased.
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