Sunflower Pump: Asset-Financed Solar Irrigation Pumps for Smallholder Farmers
Project title
Sunflower Pump: Asset-Financed Solar Irrigation Pumps for Smallholder Farmers
Project country/region
☐ East Asia & Pacific
☐ Europe & Central Asia
☐ Latin America & The Carribean
☐ Middle East & North Africa
☐ North America
☐ South Asia
☑ Sub-Saharan Africa - Kenya
Project organisation
Futurepump (Kenya)
Project description
CLEAN ENERGY SOLUTION
The Sunflower pump is an easy-to-maintain solar irrigation pump, built around a simple piston pump arrangement. Futurepump has made the product cheaper and will offer it on finance, in order to lower the upfront barriers to solar technology.
IMPACT
Productivity can be doubled through the use of irrigation water that doesn’t rely on engine pumps. The growing season can be extended through the dry season, during which produce brings a high market prices. Small vegetable farm profits can be increased as much as 45 percent through the use of a solar pump, while reducing their reliance on fossil fuel. All of these benefits will have a major impact on women, particularly because of the reduction in labor burden that mechanization will bring.
ORGANIZATION
Futurepump represents the commercial arm of a partnership that has spent the past ten years developing and perfecting the Sunflower solar irrigation pump. Futurepump is partnering with Kenya’s Equity Bank to make the Sunflower product available to customers through consumer financing that will lower the barrier to entry.
Futurepump (Kenya) participated successfully in the PAEGC Initiative (https://poweringag.org/) and was with its project 'Sunflower Pump: Asset-Financed Solar Irrigation Pumps for Smallholder Farmers' among the winners of 2015.
Project related to following sources of energy
☑ Solar
☐ Biomass
☐ Biofuel
☐ Biogas
☐ Wind
☐ Geo-Thermal
☐ Hydro
☐ Energy Efficiency
☐ Other: /
Project primarily related to the following Commodity Groups
☐ Cereals
☐ Fruits and vegetables
☐ Nuts and berries
☐ Forage
☐ Dairy products
☐ Meat products
☐ Oil Seeds
☐ Roots and Tubers
☐ Eggs
☐ Pulses
☐ Fiber Crops
☐ Forestry
☐ Sugars
☐ Stimulants
☐ Spices
☑ Other: Horticulture
Project primarily related to the following Agricultural Value Chain Steps
☐ Mechanization
☑ Efficiency of Operation
☐ Processing
☐ Transportation
☐ Controlled Atmosphere
☐ Controlled Temperature
☐ Mechanical Sorting
☐ Preservation
☑ Other: Irrigation
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