Kojadmal Jat’s solar farm is different from those surrounding it. In Kundanpura, a village in Bassi block, nearly an hour’s drive east of Jaipur, Rajasthan’s capital, the sight of fields dotted with rows of ground-mounted solar panels is now common. On 60-year-old Jat’s land, though, tender maize unfurls under the dark glass of the panels reflecting the afternoon light. The maize, in shades of pale yellow and green, fills a space that conventional solar farms leave barren. Jat has been working with researchers of Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) on an agrophotovoltaics (APV) project. Also known as agrivoltaics or agriPV, this is a practice in which the same land is used for agriculture and solar power generation. Maize grows beneath elevated solar panels at Kojadmal Jat’s Agri-PV farm, where panels allow crops to be cultivated while the 600 kW plant continues to generate electricity. Photo: Special Arrangement His farm is part of a pilot, spread across nearly 3 acres, roughly twice the size of a cricket ground. This is Rajasthan’s first …