Laicheng district, Laiwu, Shandong, China (2015 Jan)

This project in Miaoshan County is in the northeast of Laiwu where ginger, pepper and yellow tobacco and other local special agricultural products are planted and being sold in both domestic and overseas market. The mountainous landscape in Miaoshan made the local development and construction difficult, furthermore, the shortage of water resource in Miaoshan has worsened the mountain into a barren one, making the vast land resource a waste. The local agricultural production is yet to be improved because of the ineffective use of land resource plus the poor overall economic condition. In order to increase the productivity, local government decided to implement a batch of high standard cropland; the solar pumping irrigation project is a part of the high standard cropland construction scheme.

Led by the Land and Resource Bureau of Laiwu, the project adopted Solartech PS26000 solar pumping irrigation system, the system can support 95m water head and 960m horizontal water transport distance with 200daily water output. Along with the pumping system, this project has also built a 800m3 reservoir to irrigate the surrounding 67 hectares of barren land. The solar array was installed at top of reservoir to guarantee sufficient solar radiation and prevent the, it’s also good for the cooling of solar panels. Solartech solar pumping system solved the water difficulty for agriculture irrigation. The installed solar pumping system will not only enlarge arable land by turning the barren land into fertile land but also improve the farmers income.