Integrated Water and Energy Technologies (IWET)
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IWET distributes and installs mobile solar-powered water pump systems to small-holder farmer groups in the Mchinji District and solar-for-home systems to households. Farmers use the mobile pumps to pump water from shallow wells for irrigation during the dry season. The systems are sold to farmers using a flexible payment method over a period of 6 months.
The enterprise also conducts training for farmers focusing on use of solar-powered technologies and entrepreneurship skills. Farmers also receive agri-technical advice through a mobile messaging platform developed by IWET to ensure continuous support.
- Impacting 10,000 households to benefit from improved food security and nutrition
- Improved entrepreneurship skills of 80 women and contributing to closing gender gap
- Benefiting 200 farmers who provide food security to 3,000 households.
- Eradicating the use of petrol and diesel generators for irrigation amongst small-holder farmers
- Providing affordable clean energy-powered irrigation to improve agriculture outputs and reduce CO2
- Increasing awareness of clean energy and eco-friendly technologies to locals
- Engaging 200 farmers who have experienced improve yields from the use of the mobile solar-powered irrigation
- Increasing job opportunities in agribusiness to 2,500 in 3 years
Partners
ACADES supports IWET in development of training manuals for entrepreneurship and training small-holder farmers to improve productivity.
Green Impact Technologies (GIT) supplies solar panels and accessories to construct the mobile solar-powered pumps.