Irrigation Made Easy By Motorcycle-Powered Pump

In Kenya a new innovation could be replicated to help transform farming in rural East Africa, Kenya’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 40,000 litres of water per hour and consumes 0.2 litres of petrol in an hour.

Mwangi Mbugiro Farmlink-Africa director of sales, explains that The pump is mounted to a motorcycle power take over — commonly known as the engine shaft that drives it as it pumps the water from its source.

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.

Mwangi adds, “on a not-so-deep place, the water is pumped fast as compared to pumping it from a well that is deep.”

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.”

The new innovation was showcased during this year’s Agricultural Society of Kenya show at the Kisumu showground under the theme, enhancing technology for agricultural food security.