{"id":2767,"date":"2012-07-23T15:06:54","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T15:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/irrigation-made-easy-by-motorcycle-powered-pump\/"},"modified":"2012-07-23T15:05:15","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T15:05:15","slug":"irrigation-made-easy-by-motorcycle-powered-pump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/irrigation-made-easy-by-motorcycle-powered-pump\/","title":{"rendered":"Irrigation Made Easy By Motorcycle-Powered Pump"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-1562 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/vvh.jpg\" alt=\"Kenya based Farmlink-Africa director Mwangi Mbugiro shows how a motorcycle water pump operates\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{{In Kenya  a new innovation could be replicated to help transform farming in rural East Africa, Kenya&#8217;s Business Daily has reported.}}<\/p>\n<p>A group of youths working under Farmlink-Africa has developed a pump that can be powered by a motorcycle engine instead of the traditional diesel engine, which can pump a total of between 22,000 to 40,000 litres of water per hour and consumes 0.2 litres of petrol in an hour. <\/p>\n<p>Mwangi Mbugiro Farmlink-Africa director of sales, explains that The pump is mounted to a motorcycle power take over \u2014 commonly known as the engine shaft that drives it as it pumps the water from its source.<\/p>\n<p>The machine can also pump water from a well of up to 40 feet but the speed and amount of water is usually dependent on the depth.<\/p>\n<p>Mwangi  adds, \u201con a not-so-deep place, the water is pumped fast as compared to pumping it from a well that is deep.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>He noted that the advantage of this machine is that it uses a locomotive that can be used for other purposes as compared to the common diesel water pump that performs one purpose only and lies idle when you are not pumping water.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The new innovation was showcased during this year\u2019s Agricultural Society of Kenya show at the Kisumu showground under the theme, enhancing technology for agricultural food security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{In Kenya a new innovation could be replicated to help transform farming in rural East Africa, Kenya&#8217;s Business Daily has reported.}} A group of youths working under Farmlink-Africa has developed a pump that can be powered by a motorcycle engine instead of the traditional diesel engine, which can pump a total of between 22,000 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[75],"byline":[334],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-2767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-technology","tag-homenews","byline-igihe-reporter"],"bylines":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2767"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=2767"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=2767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}