There’s a growing trend in the crop-watering business — converting fuel-powered irrigation pumps to electricity. “We used to be the Cadillac of irrigation systems … If you could afford it ...

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The suggested breakdown per SIP system is 15,000 solar low-lift pumps for surface water irrigation, 2,000 solar deep tube wells, and 28,000 shallow tube wells for groundwater irrigation.

“Abstracting water using the diesel pump has been very expensive. Pumping for 17 hours every day has been costing us over Sh110,000 each day. But once we shift to gravity system, we will save ...