More than 750 farmers, 40% of whom are women, are set to benefit from a new solar-powered pumping system handed to the community in Dore Bafana Kebele (ward), Hawassa Zuria Woreda (district), in the Sidama Region, Ethiopia.
The solar-powered pump system aims to boost irrigation for farming communities in the region.
It forms part of the Trilateral Cooperation Renewable Energy Project titled Biogas, Biomass, and Solar Trilateral Cooperation Project, which is funded by China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM)and co-financed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)and Ethiopia’s Ministry of Water and Energy.
The handover ceremony was organised by the UNDP Ethiopia in partnership with the Ministry of Water and Energy (MoWE), the Chinese Embassy, the Sidama National Regional State and its Water Mine and Energy Bureau.
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