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Hi Neil In West Africa drip irrigation has been disseminated in particular by iDE https://www.ideorg.org/OurTechnologies/DripIrrigation.aspx working in partnership with Winrock and others. I no longer have any contacts working in either organisation but they do have a UK office https://www.ide-uk.org/ which might point you towards the right person to advise you

I note that they are currently working only in Burkina Faso in West Africa

https://www.ide-uk.org/burkina-faso/ “Despite its location at the edge of the Sahel the potential for small-scale irrigated agriculture in Burkina Faso is huge. iDE started work in 2011 to create sustainable supply chain for drip irrigation kits and other irrigation technologies, and have already facilitated the sale over 4,000 drip kits to date. The impact has been immediate – by enabling farmers to plant up to three crop cycles a year – agricultural production has significantly improved.”

Burkina Faso Tech Center

Pasted from https://blog.ideorg.org/category/west-africa/ On June 12, iDE’s newest country program celebrated an important milestone. iDE’s Burkina Faso team was joined by esteemed delegates from the Burkina Faso Ministry of Agriculture at a ceremony to observe the first harvest at the Center of Technology at Yamtenga. Speakers included several key iDE Burkina Faso staff, as well as Abdoulaye Compari from the Ministry of Agriculture, and Paul Bayili, who spoke on behalf of SDC on the importance of the partnership to advancing drip irrigation in the country. The event was attended by representatives of key partners including SDC, AFD, CIDA, GIZ, JICA, UNICEF, Swedish Corporation, FAO, WFP and IFAD. Various NGOs including Self-Help Africa, ACDI/VOCA, SNV, PlanetFinance, and HKI helped us to mark the occasion.

iDE Burkina Country Director Laurent Stravato discussed the organization’s efforts to implement low-cost drip irrigation technologies in a region with severely limited water resources, setting forth three issues which iDE has been working on in Burkina Faso: scaling up drip irrigation in the region, developing innovations to make it more affordable to Burkinabé farmers, and iDE Burkina’s distribution model and the advisory role of twelve farm business advisors currently working in four provinces of the country: Boulkiemdé, Kadiogo, Sanguié, and Yatenga. Ms. Aida Ganaba, head of iDE’s Technology Center, explained in detail the work being done with drip irrigation kits of varying sizes as well various innovative prototypes being tested at the Center, such as a 1000-liter, ferro-cement reservoir, a 150 liter clay jar constructed by local masons, and a wood support system housing a 1,000 liter tank, created by an iDE farm business advisor. iDE Burkina’s Center of Technology was created to serve as a facility where affordable water technologies could be developed, tested, and demonstrated to local farmers. The team faced many challenges in getting the center underway, including poor soil quality, the 400 meter distance from the nearest water source, abundance of plant disease, and a need for system uniformity. Addressing these problems, which are shared by many of the farmers iDE serves, has helped validate the effectiveness of drip irrigation in the local context.

Hi Neil Neil

In West Africa drip irrigation has been disseminated in particular by iDE https://www.ideorg.org/OurTechnologies/DripIrrigation.aspx working in partnership with Winrock and others. I no longer have any contacts working in either organisation but they do have a UK office https://www.ide-uk.org/ which might point you towards the right person to advise you

I note that they are currently working only in Burkina Faso in West Africa

https://www.ide-uk.org/burkina-faso/ “Despite its location at the edge of the Sahel the potential for small-scale irrigated agriculture in Burkina Faso is huge. iDE started work in 2011 to create sustainable supply chain for drip irrigation kits and other irrigation technologies, and have already facilitated the sale over 4,000 drip kits to date. The impact has been immediate – by enabling farmers to plant up to three crop cycles a year – agricultural production has significantly improved.”

Burkina Faso Tech Center

Pasted from https://blog.ideorg.org/category/west-africa/ On June 12, iDE’s newest country program celebrated an important milestone. iDE’s Burkina Faso team was joined by esteemed delegates from the Burkina Faso Ministry of Agriculture at a ceremony to observe the first harvest at the Center of Technology at Yamtenga. Speakers included several key iDE Burkina Faso staff, as well as Abdoulaye Compari from the Ministry of Agriculture, and Paul Bayili, who spoke on behalf of SDC on the importance of the partnership to advancing drip irrigation in the country. The event was attended by representatives of key partners including SDC, AFD, CIDA, GIZ, JICA, UNICEF, Swedish Corporation, FAO, WFP and IFAD. Various NGOs including Self-Help Africa, ACDI/VOCA, SNV, PlanetFinance, and HKI helped us to mark the occasion.

iDE Burkina Country Director Laurent Stravato discussed the organization’s efforts to implement low-cost drip irrigation technologies in a region with severely limited water resources, setting forth three issues which iDE has been working on in Burkina Faso: scaling up drip irrigation in the region, developing innovations to make it more affordable to Burkinabé farmers, and iDE Burkina’s distribution model and the advisory role of twelve farm business advisors currently working in four provinces of the country: Boulkiemdé, Kadiogo, Sanguié, and Yatenga. Ms. Aida Ganaba, head of iDE’s Technology Center, explained in detail the work being done with drip irrigation kits of varying sizes as well various innovative prototypes being tested at the Center, such as a 1000-liter, ferro-cement reservoir, a 150 liter clay jar constructed by local masons, and a wood support system housing a 1,000 liter tank, created by an iDE farm business advisor. iDE Burkina’s Center of Technology was created to serve as a facility where affordable water technologies could be developed, tested, and demonstrated to local farmers. The team faced many challenges in getting the center underway, including poor soil quality, the 400 meter distance from the nearest water source, abundance of plant disease, and a need for system uniformity. Addressing these problems, which are shared by many of the farmers iDE serves, has helped validate the effectiveness of drip irrigation in the local context.