RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

Se­nior Mul­ti­me­dia Re­porter

rad­hi­ca.sookraj@guardian.co.tt

Stu­dents from Na­pari­ma Col­lege un­veiled their ground­break­ing so­lar­pon­ic in­ven­tions dur­ing the school's sci­ence fair, mark­ing a sig­nif­i­cant step to­wards rev­o­lu­tion­iz­ing agri­cul­ture.

The high-tech sys­tems de­vel­oped by the in­no­v­a­tive stu­dents aim to as­sist farm­ers and back­yard kitchen gar­den­ers in en­hanc­ing their cul­ti­va­tion prac­tices.

One no­table in­ven­tion show­cased at the fair was a $60,000 so­lar-pow­ered farm util­i­ty ve­hi­cle, cre­at­ed from a mod­i­fied golf cart, which can be uti­lized in re­mote farms.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia at the fair on Fri­day, Form Four stu­dent Ji­braan Lall de­scribed the ve­hi­cle as, "The newest SUV."

"This is a ve­hi­cle that can be used on a farm to trans­port ma­te­ri­als and tools and it will be use­ful for re­mote ar­eas where the farmer may not have ac­cess to gaso­line fu­el. It is cost-ef­fi­cient and pow­ered by so­lar en­er­gy.

It can car­ry stuff in the car­go bay and it could fit two peo­ple," he said.

The ve­hi­cle, he ex­plained, is out­fit­ted with two car­bon deep cy­cle bat­ter­ies, and in­vert­ers to con­vert the en­er­gy to be used.