" Our life runs on diesel because, without it, our fields go fallow," said Gauri Mahato of Sarlahi district, who cultivates paddy in the rainy season and wheat, mustard and vegetables in winter. For ...

Tinder-dry conditions through late spring and early summer have brought about the unlikely return of an age-old method of water storage using hydraulic ram pumps. Cornish company Water Powered ...

BUTUAN CITY (PIA) — Water supply or irrigation to our farmlands is very important to sustain the gains of agriculture in the province and contribute to national food security. This is the statement of ...

Three pump houses of the Sita Rama Lift Irrigation Project will be inaugurated by Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on August 15 and their trial run will be conducted on Sunday (August 11), Minister for ...

GOJAL VALLEY, Pakistan (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Shovel in hand, Naila Shah regularly walks two miles from her home to a newly planted apple orchard, high in the mountains of Khyber village in ...

Around 45 percent of Bangladesh’s work force is employed in agriculture, which represents an important sector in the country’s economy. Farmers use irrigation pumps to ensure adequate and consistent ...

BARAS, Rizal – The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) turned over a solar pump irrigation project (SPIP) worth PHP20 million to Baliksaka Farmers Association Inc. in Barangay Pinugay here. DAR ...