Dakar, Senegal

One of the poorest countries listed by the UN—Senegal, like most of the Africa countries, has her economy mainly contributed by its agricultural sector. The country’s capital Dakar lies in the Cape Verde, 14 degrees north to the equator, east shore of Atlantic Ocean. With particularly favorable natural condition, Dakar enjoys sufficient sunlight during the whole year. In recent years, the raising of investment in farmland water conservancy facilities by the government brought both expansion of the arable land and yield output increase in agriculture production. However, since 2006 corps yield output were generally decreased by the a comprehensive factors such as the decreasing rainfall and reducing investment on the agriculture section.

Dakar has rich sun radiation. Solartech Italian Partner Company visited the site and made the decision to adopt Solartech SPM600C solar DC pumping system for the irrigation of garden plant. The system covers the irrigation the garden plant in 1000 square meters. Solartech SPM600C DC pumping system has 25 years life span can draw 20 tons of water a day when placed with 10 meters head. The implementation of Solartech DC pumping system not only guaranteed the cultivation of the garden plant but also provided a environmental agriculture production model for the local agriculture development.