• The increasing variability and unreliability of rainfall is forcing
farmers to look for alternate water sources for irrigation using
different water lifting technique such as diesel pumps.
• However, the costs of using diesel for powering irrigation
pumps are often beyond the means of smallholder farmers:
both for running and also as initial investment. The
environmental pollution of diesel pump is another major areas
of concern
• Although solar energy has high potential, expansion of solar
water pumping (SWP) is limited owing to a number of
obstacles including lack of access to the technology and
knowledge on its performances. The level of
commercialization and market expansion of solar pump is at
its infant stage, hence, little is known about its technical and
economic feasibility. The overall objective is to develop solar
pump business model under Ethiopian context
Introduction
Objective
Methodology
• Demonstrate feasibility of solar water pumping for irrigation
• Examine existing market-based solar financing business
models,
• Contribute to capacity development both at policy making and
farmers’ level
• 10 solar pump units with three water delivery techniques
( furrow , overhead and drip irrigation) are installed at Gamo
Gofa, Meki, Bale and Lemo. Some are LIVES sites and some are
Africa RAISING sites
• Mainly pepper is planted
• Data irrigation water volume, labour, input costs, discharge
capacity of the solar pumps and productivity are under
collection.
Piloting solar water pumps use in Ethiopia
This tool is implemented in LIVES and Africa RISING sites. The contribution of Africa RISING is acknowledged.
A special thanks goes to local communities for their close collaboration.
Gebrehaweria Gebregziabher, Amenti Chali, Berhanu Biazin, Beamlak Tesfaye
Beamlak.tesfaye@cgiar.org P.o.box 5689 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, www.ilri.org
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