Axial Flow Pumps can Reduce Energy Use and Costs for Low-lift Surface Water Irrigation in Bangladesh

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Axial Flow Pumps can Reduce Energy Use and Costs for Low-lift Surface Water Irrigation in Bangladesh

In a South-South learning vein, CIMMYT has brought the SE Asian axial flow pumps to test and test market in South Asia.

In Bangladesh currently over 1500 have been imported/sold. AFPs can lift nearly twice as much water-usually from surface sources- at heads below 3 meters bringing substantial energy and costs savings to rice, maize and wheat farmers there. 

See the video, the attached file and the link here for more on AFP work done in Bangladesh. 

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http://www.youtube.com/embed/oX_AgVzw-wY

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