How did the spread of electricity help farmer in palmpur.?
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Spread of electricity helped farmers in Palampur in a number of ways. It transformed the system of irrigation. Persian wheels were, till then, used by farmers to draw water from the wells and irrigate small fields. People saw that electric - run tubewells could irrigate much larger aread of land more effectively. The first few tubewells were installed by the government. Soon, farmers started setting up private tubewells.
As a result, by mid-1970s the entire cultivated area of 200 hectares was irrigated. Now, farmers of Palampur were able to grow three different crops in a year.
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