India’s drive to install millions of solar-powered irrigation pumps has worthy intentions. The government aims to lift farm productivity and boost rural income while relieving the state of a ...

Submersible pumps in the 0.5–30 HP range dominate the market due to their ability to operate below the water surface, deliver ...

Nearly half of irrigation costs in Bangladesh are due to irrigation, and the diesel pumps that currently power irrigation networks are responsible for 1.6% of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions.

Solar-powered water pumps can provide a sustainable solution to the global water crisis by tapping into vast groundwater resources. While solar pumps offer significant benefits, their widespread use ...

Following Bangladesh’s great achievement in expanding over 4.5 million of solar home systems to provide electricity in rural areas, the World Bank is supporting the government’s effort to install ...

A new study finds that standalone solar photovoltaic irrigation systems have the potential to meet more than a third of the water needs for crops in small-scale farms across sub-Saharan Africa. In sub ...

In a Policy Forum, Soumya Balasubramanya and colleagues argue that the carbon emissions reductions gleaned from the rapidly expanding transition to solar-powered groundwater irrigation by ...

Solar pumps bring irrigation to farms and increase yields in food-insecure, arid Niger The World Bank-funded Niger Solar Electricity Access Project enables farmers to buy pumps Based on its success, a ...

BAGUIO CITY (PIA) — Farmers in Barangay Dagupan in Luna, Apayao are now experiencing relief in cultivating their rice fields after the government implemented a solar pump irrigation project in their ...

Nigerian farmers are no doubt excited with the prospect of expanding their capacity to grow more crops and become richer as the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) has ...

A provincial government in the Philippines has installed a solar pump that will move water to a reservoir where fish can now be bred. The $124,000 system will also irrigate vegetables and high-value ...

TABUK CITY, Kalinga (PIA) — Two solar-powered irrigation projects in Barangay Malalao continue to benefit local farmers whose farmlands cannot be reached by the communal irrigation system in the area.