How using solar energy can drastically improve how farmers water their crops, with Flavia Howard

Water is fundamental to any sort of agricultural business. As it stands, a large portion of Rwandan farmers only get it from the sky, in the form of sporadic rainfall. This is despite plentiful lakes full of water being mere metres away.

Irrigation is the general term process for artificially getting water on these crops, and Flavia and I discuss her evaluation of the market and the product she has been looking at (Future Pump) that provides a solar powered irrigation pump to smallholder farmers.

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https://theeastafricabusinesspodcast.com/2016/09/28/irrigation-systems-an-overview-of-innovations-in-how-farmers-in-rwanda-water-their-crops-with-flavia-howard/