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 ...

Variable speed drives are transforming modern irrigation by shifting control from valves to pump speed. Instead of running motors at full capacity and throttling flow, the drives adjust motor speed to ...

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 ...

Comet-ME has developed a solar-powered submersible borehole piston pump for off-grid communities and smallholders to use for irrigation and domestic purposes. The device, compatible with PV systems ...

This article is authored by Aruna Sharma, practitioner development economist and retd secretary, Government of India.

With all three pumps of the Ganges-Kobadak (GK) Irrigation Project out of order, hundreds of thousands of farmers in Kushtia, Chuadanga, Jhenaidah and Magura, who depend on water from the GK project ...

SWABI: Growers and their leaders said here on Tuesday that they had lost the sole source of irrigation due to unavailability of water in Topi canal. They demanded immediate repair of the water pumps ...