David is a commercial small-scale farmer planting maize, vegetables and bananas - he also uses irrigation on his farm. David used to irrigate using a convectional petrol-powered water pump that would cost him an average of Ksh. 1,000 a day exclusive of labour which goes for Ksh 400 per casual labourer. “This was costly for me, yet it also involved a lot of water mismanagement since I used flood irrigation with a 2.5-inch pipe’’ says David... Read more