On the road from Kisumu to the airport, Joyce Mkoya operates a tree nursery. Continue reading Moneymaker in Action
Category Archives: Micro Irrigation
“900,000 pumped out of poverty”
What I find when I search for Approtec, the Expo 2000 project, is a company that promotes just one product: a water pump. Today the company is called Kickstart and their pump they call “Moneymaker”. Continue reading “900,000 pumped out of poverty”
Micro Irrigation Pumps Project (2000 text)
lndependence made easy
It sounds like a fairy-tale. Helen Murangiri bought her first oil-seed press in 1995. She had noticed this hand-operated machine at a small agricultural exhibition put on by the Kenyan non-governmental organization ApproTec She asked a neighbouring farmer to grow sunflowers for her, and a few months later 3 employees were pressing 20 litres of high-quality pure sunflower oil daily. Continue reading Micro Irrigation Pumps Project (2000 text)