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GRUNDFOS REFLECTS ON SOLAR TECHNOLOGY
FOR IRRIGATION AND THUS FOOD
PRODUCTION
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rundfos, the award-winning world leader in pump manufacturing, has long been a strong global advocate of
water efficiency. Access to safe water is one of the greatest challenges in the world, which will only increase in line
with the growing climate changes. Today 1 billion people are
without access to safe water and more people will suffer.
Fasting during Ramadan enables us to think about what life is like
for people in countries who do not have sufficient food or safe
drinking water. As the worldwide demand for food is expected to
rise, there are countries that have been unable to sustain agricultural crops, because of the non-availability of sufficient power for irrigation, as well as climate changes causing the shortage of rainfall.
With global urbanization and population increases, the demand for
electricity is increasing day by day, even society is trying to apply energy efficient solutions. For many nations to cope with the demand and
provide enough electricity for irrigation is a great challenge. Farmers
are forced to look into other options, i.e. using diesel generators for
running their water pumps. This requires continuously operational
attendance and is not considered the best sustainable solution and at
the same time increases substantially the cost of pumping water to irrigate crops. Grundfos solar solutions can help meeting this challenge.
Grundfos’ new and extended power range of solar solutions for
water pumps used in irrigation are providing significant improvements to the agricultural sector. It will allow societies and farmers to
increase capacity of water for food production not relying on public
electricity or fuel and systems required far less operational maintenance. By this additional food security can be gained in many areas.
Fertilizers often being the biggest cost in agriculture, Grundfos smart digital pumps help to optimize the cost of their usage
through the precise dosing of these fertilizers in the ‘fertigation’
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process. Fertigation, as the name
implies, is the process by which
fertilizers are applied with the irrigation water. The fertilizer solutions are prepared in advance in
stock tanks and the solution is
then injected into the irrigation water. Over-usage of fertilizers leads
to money wastage and under-usage leads to lower yield. Grundfos
smart digital pumps balances this
by dosing only what is required.
“It is well known that we want to deliver the world to the next generation
in a better state than we inherited it,
and solar solutions and other smart
technologies like Digital Dosing will
help society in that direction,” commented Henning Sandager Andersen, Area Managing Director,
Middle East & Turkey. We contribute
to global sustainability by pioneering
technologies that improve the quality of life for people and care for the
planet. Working towards a positive
impact lies deep within our existence
and our purpose as a business.”
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