Sunlight Pump for Irrigation to stop Deforestation by smallholder farmers

The specific problems we are solving is shortage of food as a result of drought caused by climate change and deforestation caused by smallholder farmers for charcoal for sale. The scale of the drought like this year is that half of the country Zambia had severe drought and the President of Zambia has pronounced it as National Challenge because it has affected about half of the population of Zambia. The number of people affected in the country Zambia is 11,000,000. The factors contributing the problem relating to our solution is drought caused by climate change because of deforestation for charcoal for sale by smallholder farmers in the dry season which affects the climate change.

To mitigate and prevent further man-made destruction of the environment, Muchinga General Enterprises Limited is solving by changing the agricultural production cycle of women smallholder farmers by empowering them with sunlight water pumps for irrigation purposes and providing them with guaranteed market for their cereal, legumes and other crops at the local rural in Mafinga and Serenje Zambia. This is to empower them and save on hard labour and making them to grow and irrigate large position and yield much for sale as an income generating activity unlike cutting of trees for charcoal for sale.

For solar water pump systems to be given as long term loan basis to smallholder farmers, we plan to start with 3000 smallholder farmers cooperatives who could each be able to manage Two hectares for each cooperative under irrigation and grow different crops throughout out the year. We shall purchase the crops from these smallholder farmers at the local rural and sell to bulk buyers and processors. We have operation centres in Mafinga and Serenje Districts in Zambia which require two warehouses for storage of crops at the local rural in Muchinga and Central Province

2 HP SUNLIGHT PUMP

SURFACE SOLAR PUMP WITH HIGH WATER
OUTPUT
Key Features
Solar powered water pump set
Maximum flow rate 520 lit/min
Maximum daily discharge > 210 m3
/day
Maximum Total Dynamic Head 20 meters
1800 Watt Input Power
Weight 33kg
High efficiency
Free ennos App available for monitoring the system
Automated and running dry protection
PAYG solution available
Swiss Design- manufactured by Jain Irrigation
Systems Ltd.
Key Benefits
Low running costs: No operational costs and almost
maintenance free
Long life: Lifespan of 10+ years
Automated: Starts by itself when Sunshine hits the
solar panels
Versatile: Can be used in combination with drip and
sprinkler systems
Efficient: Efficient enough to run during cloudy
weather
The smallholder farmers to be paid for commodities purchased from them using mobile phone payment system for security in the rural both to the company as well as smallholder farmers for them to increase saving as well as quick recovery of solar water pump systems loans. Another service is that of ploughing the fields quickly using the tractor for the smallholder farmers to increase size of hectares for growing crops under irrigation. This will increase income at household level as well as food security for smallholder farmers and for them to concentrate on farming as source of income unlike cutting trees for charcoal for sell which affect the climate change. 

The target population are smallholder farmers in Zambia who earn income once a year after they sale their harvest and in dry season try to earn income by cutting trees for charcoal for sale which is affecting the climate change. These smallholder farmers are our customers for sunlight water pumps and at the same time are our producers of the crops for our sale. Most of the Smallholder farmers cannot afford to buy the sunlight water pump system for irrigation but by our solution we are making it possible for every smallholder farmer. 

Our solution will address their need by our guaranteed market for cereal and legume crops grown by smallholder farmers in rural areas in Mafinga and Serenje Districts Zambia so that they increase the volume of production of cereal and legume crops thereby creating value of agribusiness to discourage deforestation for charcoal for sale while providing guaranteed supply to bulk buyers and processors that meet the quality, type, quantity and at market price. 

The company founder Mr. Chaka Ng'ambi understands that the world is becoming more abundant, and this allows to maintain a hopeful and compelling vision for the future for the people, especially smallholder farmers in Mafinga and Serenje in Zambia and having such a positive goal sets him apart so design and deliver the solution to the target population of smallholder farmers in Zambia. 

The enterprise team will not fear the future instead it will embrace it and become excited to learn all it can to create the future the team and business desire. The enterprise team will not resent missed opportunities because it understands that the world is of ever-increasing opportunities and shall view competitors as potential future collaborators.

 We identified the need for this since since we have been working in Mafinga District Zambia for more than five years now with women and cooperatives and found that women in Mafinga District are hardworking but need sunlight water pumps for irriagtion to become empowered  and become resilient to drought caused by climate changes so that they have food security at household level. The communities in Mafinga District like cooperatives were involved and headmen to identify the need of the solution.

We selected this stage because weare yet to acquire the Sunlight water pumps systems from Jain Irrigation Systems Limited to pilot the solution indicated and we have aggregated cereals and legumes from smallholder farmers and sold to World Food Programme to feed school children and people who were affected by severe drought caused by climate change in 2016 in Zimbabwe. The way we have designed our solution is our business model to prosper together with smallholder farmers while conserving the environment.

The specific financial, technical, legal, cultural and market barriers are that we do not have capacity in terms of finance of about USD100000 to purchase sunlight water pumps for irrigation from Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd in India but want to use that technology to solve the challenge of drought caused by climate change. We are applying to solve 

to acquire

• Increased understanding of the strategies behind sustainable business and responsible leadership and its links to business from an international perspective to apply in the development of the organisation.
• Increased personal competitiveness on a global level.
• Access to the knowledge of top leaders in business and the public sector.
• International network of future top management.
• Knowledge in business to be applied to solve agriculture challenges and contribute to solving day to day challenges using strategic management skills. To be a leader in applying top management skills to solve day to day challenges in Africa so that we have better livelihood for all.
• Strategic capacity to solve new climate change challenges in agriculture, knowledge and skills required to run the agribusiness enterprise to meet current and future agricultural challenges and food security by being able to design business models which will help smallholder farmers in rural areas manage natural resources as well as formulating innovative business plans that work for the enterprise while meeting rural community expectations and all stakeholders. To increase the volume and value of agribusiness based on the output of smallholder farmers in rural areas.

Our agribusiness model where the smallholder farmers are our customers for solar water pumps for irrigation purposes and at the same time are our producers for cereals and legumes which we buy from them at the local rural in Mafinga and Serenje Districts and sell to bulk buyers and processors is our innovation NOT the sunlight pump for irrigation.The way the agribusiness model is designed is our innovation so that the smallholder farmers will increase the production of cereals, legumes and other crops, mitigate drought effect by irrigation, stop cutting trees for charcoal for sale and concentrate on farming as source of income because of the guaranteed market at the local rural in Mafinga and Serenje District in Zambia. Smallholder farmers will be provided sunlight water pumps for irrigation as loans to repay within one or two years.We are creating guaranteed market for cereal and legume crops grown by smallholder farmers in rural areas in Mafinga and Serenje Districts Zambia so that they increase the volume of production of cereal and legume crops thereby creating value of agribusiness to discourage deforestation for charcoal for sale while providing guaranteed supply to bulk buyers and processors that meet the quality, type, quantity and at market price. Selling solar water pump systems to smallholder farmers and making it affordable even to the poor, sensitizing and training smallholder farmers about improved way to do farming using new innovative methods by installing solar water pumps for irrigation so that they have increased income and food security by growing crops throughout the year as well as overcome the risk of drought and adapt to climate change as well as stop cutting down of trees for charcoal as source of income..For solar water pump systems to be given as long term loan basis to smallholder farmers, we plan to start with 3000 smallholder farmers cooperatives who could each be able to manage Two hectares for each cooperative under irrigation and grow different crops throughout out the year. We shall purchase the crops from these smallholder farmers at the local rural and sell to bulk buyers and processors. We have operation centres in Mafinga and Serenje Districts in Zambia which require two warehouses for storage of crops at the local rural in Muchinga and Central Provinces.The smallholder farmers to be paid for commodities purchased from them using mobile phone payment system for security in the rural both to the company as well as smallholder farmers for them to increase saving as well as quick recovery of solar water pump systems loans. Another service is that of ploughing the fields quickly using the tractor for the smallholder farmers to increase size of hectares for growing crops under irrigation. This will increase income at household level as well as food security for smallholder farmers and for them to concentrate on farming as source of income unlike cutting trees for charcoal for sell which affect the climate change.

Our solution will create great impact to the poor smallholder farmers to adapt and become resilient to drought caused by climate change and we are making sunlight water pumps for irrigation affordable.

The specific critical barriers or problems we want to solve relate to the water and energy for food that our product/services addresses are: 1.For Water- Climate change is causing dry lands even areas which were wetlands and therefore smallholder farmers in these areas are facing challenges for water for agricultural purposes and for their livestock. 2.Cost of energy to smallholder farmers to do irrigation. 3.Increase in population need for nutritious food.

Our unique agribusiness model is designed to solve the above barriers by prospering together with the rural smallholder farmers by changing their agricultural production cycle using available sunlight solar water pumps for irrigation purpose and providing guaranteed market at the local rural for cereals and legume crops produced by smallholder farmer to encourage them to increase production of these crops to feed the fast-increasing population with nutritious food. Making solar water pump systems affordable to the smallholder farmers by providing long term loans in terms of solar water pumps systems for irrigation purposes.

The demand for Sunlight water pump for irrigation by smallholder farmers used in our innovative agribusiness model in Mafinga and Serenje Districts are derived by unpredictable rain pattern because of drought and climate change. It is also derived to increase food production because of the fast increasing population which needs food. The consistent demand for cereal like maize(corn) is the main staple food for most of the countries in the Southern African countries and for legume like common beans is the source of cheap proteins for most of the rural poor and even in the urban areas. The service of providing loans for solar water pump systems for irrigation purposes is being derived because of the climate change which is causing unpredictable rain patterns for most of the smallholder farmers to cope with in Southern African countries. The value created for solar water system for irrigation purposes to smallholder farmers is that they are able to concentrate on farming as source of income unlike cutting of trees in the dry season for charcoal for sell which affects the climate change. The customers are at both ends, smallholder farmers for solar water pump systems for irrigation and bulk buyers of cereal and legume crops for processing like in milling companies and livestock manufacturers. Financial services we offer link smallholder farmers in the rural by phone to distant banks so that smallholder farmers could make banking services and transactions at the local rural.

Positive environmental impact could be achieved as most smallholder farmers in the rural in Mafinga and Serenje Districts Zambia will concentrate on continuous farming of crop rotation using the solar water pumps for irrigation. The cutting down of trees for charcoal for sell will
be drastically reduced by smallholder farmers. Water reservoirs will be used for water pumped by solar water pumps unlike letting water flow from rivers to lakes. The water saved could be used for irrigation by smallholder farmers.
Negative environmental impact is mitigated by sensitizing smallholder farmers about the importance of preserving our environment so that we do not kill the future generation by using our available resources sustainably.

Interested investors could help with the required funding of USD186000 for the proposed solution to make women resilient to climate change especially in terms of food security by being able to grow crops throughout the year and making it affordable to acquire sunlight water pump for irrigation purposes. This will include the purchasing of tractors to plough the fields instead of using hoes by smallholder farmer women in order to help farmers cope with the increased crop production due to the continuous irrigation farming. We need to register, connect and train more than 12000 smallholder farmers in Mafinga and Serenje Districts Zambia in four months about how to use any mobile phone to make transactions on mobile phone and banking services at the local rural. 

  The benefits are that investors will help to save work of women and for them to become resilient to effects of climate change like drought if they are empowered with sunlight water pump for irrigation and to feed the fast-increasing population with real nutritious food of common beans, and also help preserve the environment

0.5 HP SUNLIGHT PUMP
SURFACE SOLAR PUMP WITH HIGH WATER
OUTPUT
Key Features
Solar powered portable water pumpset
150- 500 Watt Input Power
Maximum flow rate 45 Lit/min
Maximum daily discharge >22 m3
/day
Maximum Total Dynamic Head 40 meters
High efficiency BLDC motor technology
High efficiency progressive cavity pump
Smartphone App available for monitoring the system
operation and performance
Battery mode also available if required
Swiss Design- manufactured by Jain Irrigation
Systems
Key Benefits
Portable design: for easy transportation and
convenient operation at remote / distant places
Low running costs: No operational costs and almost
maintenance free
Long life: Lifespan of 10+ years
Versatile: This pump set can be used with drip and
sprinkler systems for marginal farms (<2 acres) /
gardening, community drinking water supply etc.
Efficient system allows to run the pump in cloudy
weather also

2 HP SUNLIGHT PUMP
SURFACE SOLAR PUMP WITH HIGH WATER
OUTPUT
Key Features
Solar powered water pump set
Maximum flow rate 520 lit/min
Maximum daily discharge > 210 m3
/day
Maximum Total Dynamic Head 20 meters
1800 Watt Input Power
Weight 33kg
High efficiency
Free ennos App available for monitoring the system
Automated and running dry protection
PAYG solution available
Swiss Design- manufactured by Jain Irrigation
Systems Ltd.
Key Benefits
Low running costs: No operational costs and almost
maintenance free
Long life: Lifespan of 10+ years
Automated: Starts by itself when Sunshine hits the
solar panels
Versatile: Can be used in combination with drip and
sprinkler systems
Efficient: Efficient enough to run during cloudy
weather

It is a surface pump which can lift water from a maximum
suction head of 7 meters and deliver it to a maximum of
20 meters for 2 HP pump & 40 meters for 0.5 HP pump.
It operates from early morning till late evening. It can be
powered by using solar panels. It requires a clear shadow
free area for the solar modules during the day and works
365 days a year!
WHAT ARE THE MAIN COMPONENTS OF JAIN
SUNLIGHT PUMP?
SOLAR PANELS: Converts the solar energy into electrical
energy to run the solar pump
MOTOR: Highly efficient brushless DC motor with maintenance
free operation
PUMP END : Stainless Steel centrifugal pump
PUMP CONTROLLER : Smart controller with integrated
Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) and variable speed
Operation, LED Display etc
Bluetooth interface to connect the smartphone to the pump
via android app. Easy way to control the pump and monitor the
working status along with historical data

• Mr. Chaka Ng’ambi Project Manager. is full time
• Mr. Kennedy Simwinga Project Accountant. Part time
• Mr. Vincent Mwamba, Building Engineer  Parttime
• Mr. Gift Chibanga Business Development Officer. Has Bachelor of Science in Economics and Finance Full time
• Mr. Hillan Chibuye   Monitoring and Evaluation Officer  Fulltime
• Mr. Alfred Mambwe. Electro- Mechanical Engineer Parttime
• Ms. Angelina Nampungwe Office Assistant Full time
• Ms. Sarah Zyambo is Business Manager has Diploma in Community Development Full time

We have been working on the solution for more than five years. Most of our team members have recently joined to accelerate our solution.

Our team is diverse with the competences required for our solution.

• Mr. Chaka Ng’ambi Project Manager. Is multi-skilled and has more than Ten years working experience in various organizations.  Is trained to size and install solar equipment of all sizes of projects. Is 2018 Thought For Food Ambassador. Has Certificate in Project Management from The Project Management Institute. Is a member of Zambia Institute of Chartered  Accountants.
• Mr. Kennedy Simwinga Project Accountant. Has more than Eight years working experience including grant funds accounting. He is a Licentiate member of Zambia Institute of Chartered 
• Mr. Vincent Mwamba, Building Engineer responsible for constructions of water tanks for irrigation purposes. Has Bachelor of Building Science and more than Seven years working experience.
• Mr. Gift Chibanga Business Development Officer. Has Bachelor of Science in Economics and Finance
• Ms. Angelina Nampungwe  Office Assistant. Has Diploma in Sustainable Agriculture with more than 2 years working experience in field work.
• Mr. Alfred Mambwe. Electro- Mechanical Engineer, responsible for installing solar water pumps for irrigation. Has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electro- Mechanical Engineering
• Mr. Hillan Chibuye   Monitoring and Evaluation Officer responsible for monitoring and evaluation of the progress of the project. Has Bachelor of Arts Degree in Gender and Rural Development.
• Ms. Sarah Zyambo is Business Manager has Diploma in Community Development

We are creating guaranteed market for cereal and legume crops grown by smallholder farmers in rural areas in Mafinga and Serenje Districts Zambia so that they increase the volume of production of cereal and legume crops thereby creating value of agribusiness to discourage deforestation for charcoal for sale while providing guaranteed supply to bulk buyers and processors that meet the quality, type, quantity and at market price. Selling solar water pump systems to smallholder farmers, sensitizing and training smallholder farmers about improved way to do farming using new innovative methods by installing solar water pumps for irrigation so that they have increased income and food security by growing crops throughout the year as well as overcome the risk of drought and adapt to climate change as well as stop cutting down of trees for charcoal as source of income. The Sunlight Solar water pump system for irrigation purpose is patented by Ennos of Switzerland. Our unique agribusiness model is not patented and we have no lawsuit about our agribusiness model. Our agribusiness model were the smallholder farmers are our customers for solar water pumps for irrigation purposes and at the same time are our producers for cereals and legumes which we buy from them at the local rural in Mafinga and Serenje Districts and sell to bulk buyers and processors is our innovation NOT the sunlight pump for irrigation. The way the agribusiness model is our innovation so that the smallholder farmers will increase the production of cereals, legumes and other crops, mitigate drought effect by irrigation, stop cutting trees for charcoal for sale and concentrate on farming as source of income because of the guaranteed market at the local rural in Mafinga and Serenje District in Zambia. Smallholder farmers will be provided sunlight water pumps for irrigation as loans to repay within one year.

The other services our enterprise offer are financial services.To become Covid-19 Business Resilient, MGE has partnered with digital companies like Kazang Zambia Ltd and Atlasmara Bank with innovative Tenga platform which is powered by Atlasmara Bank so that new information is easily disseminated among the community in an effective and speedy way and also enabling mobile payments and banking services on smallholder farmers especially women mobile phones for easy payment and encourage income saving to the farmers. Our passion is to prosper together with the marginalized smallholder farmers in Mafinga and Serenje District by teaching them with innovative ways of using local materials like livestock manure to do farming and using available technologies and thereby reducing poverty at household rural level. 

Our plans for sustainability, growth and expansion are as follows: 1.The smallholder farmers are to be paid for commodities purchased from them using mobile phone payment system for security in the rural both to the company as well as smallholder farmers for them to increase saving as well as quick recovery of solar water pump systems loans. Another service is that of ploughing the fields for smallholder farmers quickly using the tractor for the smallholder farmers to increase size of hectares for growing crops under irrigation. This will increase income at household level as well as food security for smallholder farmers and for them to concentrate on farming as source of income unlike cutting trees for charcoal for sell which affects the climate change. 2.For solar water pump systems to be given as long-term loan basis to smallholder farmers, we plan to start with 3000 smallholder farmers in cooperatives who could each be able to manage at least Two hectares for each cooperative under irrigation and grow different crops throughout out the year. We purchase the crops from these smallholder farmers at the local rural in Mafinga and Serenje Zambia and sell to bulk buyers and processors. We have operation centres in Mafinga and Serenje Districts Zambia which require two warehouses for storage of crops at the local rural in Muchinga and Central Provinces Zambia.  For the Mafinga storage warehouse is under construction and what is just remaining is roofing and we require USD5000 to do the roofing.

To become Covid-19 Business Resilient, MGE has partnered with digital companies like Kazang Zambia Ltd and Atlasmara Bank as Agent with innovative Tenga platform which is powered by Atlasmara Bank so that new information is easily disseminated among the community in an effective and speedy way and also enabling mobile payments and banking services on smallholder farmers especially women mobile phones for easy payment and encourage income saving to the farmers. Our passion is to prosper together with the marginalized smallholder farmers in Mafinga and Serenjes District by teaching them with innovative ways of using local materials like livestock manure to do farming and using available technologies and thereby reducing poverty at household rural level. The enterprise will become Financial Resilient from sales and increased earnings from commissions by partnering. with local digital companies like Kazang Zambia Limited and Atlasmara Bank with the Tenga payment platform. The income earned will be used to purchase increased volumes of cereals and legumes from smallholder farmers at the local rural in Mafinga and Serenje Districts. Smallholder farmers will become resilient and have increased income as they will not be moving long distances to the bank since banking services will be on their mobile phones and crops aggregated from them will be paid using Atlas Mara Tenga platform by our enterprise. We are connecting all smallholder farmers in Mafinga and Serenje District with mobile phones to Atlasmara Bank.by making contact numbers as bank account numbers.