Adi Quala, Mendefera, Eritrea (Jan, 2015)

The Eritrean solar water conservancy agriculture irrigation demonstration project is located in the city of Mendefera, Southern Province of Eritrea. This demonstration project is an Aid Project sponsored by Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region to Eritrea. Eritrea is an agriculture country, 80% of the population live on farming and husbandry . The poor agricultural infrastructure and the backward means of the production have made the country seriously short of food --the self-sufficient rate only reaches 60-70% even in a very good harvest year . It is very urgent for the country to increase its food production to satisfy the food demand. The ministry of agriculture of Eritrea thus decided to implement high efficiency agriculture irrigation project to increase the country’s grain production, Taking a month to construction , this project, was jointly accomplished by Shenzhen Solartech and Xinjiang Tianye Corp. The solar pumping system can satisfy 1000Mu farmland irrigation

After detailed spot investigation of the local agricultural production condition in Adi Quala , the techinical team chose Solartech PS18500 solar drip irrigation system (2 sets). The fully automatic irrigation system which takes water directly from the local lake covers 1000mu (6666.6 acres) of local economic plants with 40m of water head and 900m3 daily water output. This is the 1st demonstrative base to build a modernized agriculture application of solar water conservancy irrigation system in Adi Quala，Eritrea. Combining excellent design plans and advanced equipment，the irrigation system overcomes lots of difficulties like backward local electric power facilities, problems of water intaking from the lake，problems of remote transport of water to the farmland etc. The installed irrigation system uses high efficiency and pollution free solar energy as the power source , employs floating platform installation to intake water from lakes, adopts pipeline for water transport and integrates drip irrigation under the plastic film, pushing an improvement for the agricultural planting level in Eritrea.