Treadle pump (TP) technology has been promoted by Enterprise Works in West Africa as an alternative to the traditional rope and bucket irrigation. The aim is to improve output and incomes and reduce poverty among farm s. This paper reports a short term (two years) assessment of the dynamics of its adoption and impacts, with a special focus on poverty …
MoneyMaker pumps are low-cost, high-quality irrigation technologies designed for small-scale farmers in Africa. Currently only about 4%-6% of Africa is irrigated. The long dry seasons often result in little food and wide-spread hunger. With rains becoming increasingly unreliable, the need and potential for MoneyMaker irrigation pumps is huge.
Treadle Pumps for Irrigation in Africa is the first in the Knowledge Synthesis Reports series. Topics to be covered in future include: n Global Review of Research and Development Needs in Irrigation and Drainage n Water Conservation Technologies …
The introduction of treadle pump technology in Africa, starting in the early 1990s, proved more difficult and slower than in Bangladesh and other countries in South Asia.
In 2013, thirty-eight treadle pumps were installed in eastern Ethiopia, as a lowcost technology for small-scale irrigation; six local farmers were trained in installation and maintenance of the pumps.
Water-lifting technologies in rural areas of the developing world have enormous potential to stimulate agricultural and economic growth. The treadle pump, a human-powered …
KickStart is unleashing the power of enterprise with the irrigation tools that enable millions of smallholder farmers across Sub-Saharan Africa to tackle poverty on their own terms. With our innovative water pumps, farming families …
The treadle pump is a low speed foot operated single acting double cylinder piston pump for low lift irrigation. A scientific methodology is demonstrated for the evaluation of a metal treadle pump…
A treadle pump is a foot operated single acting double cylinder piston pump for low lift irrigation. These pumps were originally developed in Bangladesh for pulling water up to the pump level. Later they were adapted in Kenya to push water higher than the pump. The later designs are referred to as "pressure pumps" because they can push water ...
As part of their irrigation strategy, the government and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Malawi are actively promoting the use of treadle pumps in smallholder irrigation. The positive impact of treadle pumps on food security and poverty reduction in Malawi and elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa is well documented. However, few studies have analysed the adoption …
This is followed by reports prepared by national experts on the experience of using treadle pumps in different countries across Africa. These principally address the important issues of …
Treadle Pump Series treadle pump can do most of the work of a motorized pump,but costs considerably less to purchase.Because it needs no fossil fuel,it also costs less to operate.All the pond,lake and groundwater can be the water soucrce.It can increase the aera of water supplying by lengthing the intake pipes and discharge pipe.properly adjusted and maintained,it can be …
Treadle pumps for irrigation in Africa. Knowledge synthesis report No. 1. The report begins with a review of the different treadle pumps currently in use in Africa and the information available on their technical performance, with a view to trying to answer the question – Which is the best treadle pump? ...
This paper presents a study to assess the irrigation expansion potential for four smallholder irrigation technologies: motor pumps, treadle pumps, communal river diversion, and small reservoirs. An integrated modeling system that combines GIS data analysis, biophysical and economic predictive modeling, and crop mix optimization techniques was ...
This report begins with a review of the different treadle pumps currently in use in Africa and the information available on their technical performance, with a view to trying to answer the question - Which is the best treadle pump? This is followed by reports prepared by national experts on the experience of using treadle pumps in different countries across Africa.
What pumps are available in Africa?..... .....1 WHICH PUMP GIVES THE BEST PERFORMANCE? .....1
The tools to irrigate Africa KickStart's award-winning, MoneyMaker-branded, easy-to-use, irrigation technologies are uniquely designed for smallholder farmers to leverage their existing assets and skills, greatly increase their …
Properly managed, treadle pump irrigation can improve food security, income, nutrition, and health sustainably without detrimental effects to the environment. The training educated 12 farmers in establishing an irrigation layout using gravity-fed basins, with water pumped from a stream downhill using a treadle pump.
The positive impact of treadle pumps on food security and poverty reduction in Malawi and elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa is well documented. However, few studies have …
Table 3 shows results of treadle pump testing in the laboratory as averages of a number of replicated records. The different treadle pumps manufactured in Zimbabwe range in their average discharge rates from 1.4 to 4.2 m 3 /h at average total dynamic head of 5.3 m. Table 4 gives the ranking by the four pump operators in terms of ease of pumping. Curves of the …
Treadle pumps for irrigation in Africa by Melvyn Kay, 2000, IPTRID Secretariat, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations edition, in English
Treadle Pumps for Irrigation in Africa. IPTRIDKnowledge Synthesis Report no. 1, October 2000. International Programme for Technology and Research in Irrigation and Drainage (IPTRID)/ FAO Rome, Italy. Kennedy P. 2001. A Guide to Econometrics, 4th edn. The MIT Press: Cambridge, Mass. Leagans PJ. 1979. Adoption of Modern Agricultural Technology by ...
enhancing technology, an irrigation treadle pump. The importance of gender analysis for irrigation, and specifically, treadle pumps, has been highlighted in previous work in Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia ... earlier studies of treadle pumps in Zambia (Chancellor and O'Neill 1999, Dhaka 2000). A farmer learns to use the treadle pump.
Current treadle pump designs can draw water from depths reaching 7 m at flow rates up to 5 L/s ( Orr et al., 1991;Bielenberg and Allen, 1995). Human-powered pumps have helped numerous subsistence ...
Treadle pumps for irrigation in Africa. International Programme for Technology and Research in Irrigation and Drainage. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ↑ Kedge, C. (2001). The Introduction of Treadle Pumps into South Africa. (p. 8). Johannesburg: SABI. ↑ Kay, T. B. (2000). Treadle pumps for irrigation in Africa.
A treadle pump being demonstrated in Malawi. A treadle pump is a human-powered Pump designed to lift water from a depth of seven meters or less. A treadle W is a lever device pressed by the foot to drive a machine, in this case a pump. The treadle pump can do most of the work of a motorized pump, but costs considerably less (75%) to purchase.
Treadle Pumps for Irrigation in Africa is the first in the Knowledge Synthesis Reports series. Topics to be covered in future include: - Global Review of Research and Development Needs …
Since the inception of the treadle 29 pump, companies such as International Development Enterprises (IDE) and KickStart 30 have re-designed the treadle pump and introduced a variety of other human ...
This report begins with a review of the different treadle pumps currently in use in Africa and the information available on their technical performance, with a view to trying to answer the …
As part of their irrigation strategy, the government and non‐governmental organizations (NGOs) in Malawi are actively promoting the use of treadle pumps in smallholder irrigation. The positive impact of treadle pumps on food security and poverty reduction in Malawi and elsewhere in sub‐Saharan Africa is well documented. However, few studies have …
The potential for improving the efficiency of micro-scale irrigation in Africa through the use of simple human powered pumps is discussed. In a series of tests carried out in Harare, Zimbabwe the ...
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) faces great challenges in development, including the highest poverty rate in the world, ... in irrigation where greater volumes of water are required. Treadle pumps work by drawing water from a river or shallow groundwater and discharging it into a canal for gravity irrigation, or by using pressure to force it into a ...
Treadle Pumps for Irrigation in Africa. Melvyn Kay, T. E. Brabben. Food & Agriculture Org., 2000 - Irrigation - 58 pages . Preview this book » Selected pages. Page 24. Page 22. Page 23. Page 21. Page 27. Contents. ARE TREADLE PUMPS A VIABLE OPTION FOR AFRICA? 1 ...
Treadle pumps are manual irrigation pumps which can pump water from up to a depth of 7 to 10 metres by using atmospheric pressure. They are operated by pedalling the levers alternatively...
Treadle Pump Irrigation in Malawi: Adoption, Gender and Benefits
The MoneyMakerMax pumps reduce the burden of former methods of irrigation because farmers do not have to spend time filling, lifting, and exerting energy carrying cans of water. Both men …
