Solar-powered irrigation pumps are gaining popularity owing to cost-effective financing and an innovative business model. The country now has around 120 solar irrigation pumps, the majority of which ...

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 ...

Climate-KIC, a European-union climate innovation initiative, recently selected a jury of entrepreneurs, financiers and business people to award funding to what they felt were Europe’s best clean-tech ...

Around 45 percent of Bangladesh’s work force is employed in agriculture, which represents an important sector in the country’s economy. Farmers use irrigation pumps to ensure adequate and consistent ...

Birnin Kebbi — In this interview, Kebbi State Commissioner of Agriculture, Elder Sani D. Kanya, said the government has purchased about 12,000 hand pumps for distribution to irrigation farmers in the ...

Philippines government moves to boost output in bid to stabilise price of rice Manila: Agriculture Secretary Manny Pinol said solar-powered irrigation pumps could hold the key to making the ...