{"id":62504,"date":"2015-10-05T14:05:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T14:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=700344c60444772b7c37b608ff84e720"},"modified":"2015-10-05T14:05:24","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T14:05:24","slug":"news-story-innovation-in-solar-powered-irrigation-apply-now-for-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=62504","title":{"rendered":"News story: Innovation in solar powered irrigation: apply now for funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/department-for-international-development\">Department for International Development<\/a> (DFID) is to invest up to \u00a3800,000 in projects that will develop portable and cheap irrigation pumps for use in developing regions around the world, especially sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Studies show that good irrigation can increase productivity by over 100% but most African smallholders can\u2019t afford traditional irrigation equipment.  Treadle pumps are labour intensive and often not suitable for women farmers. Motorised pumps have high running costs.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed pump should:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>have a production cost of \u00a330<\/li>\n<li>be lightweight<\/li>\n<li>work with existing irrigation systems<\/li>\n<li>be easy to use and maintain<\/li>\n<li>be able to lift 7m with a daily volume of 6m<sup>3<\/sup>\n<\/li>\n<li>work in both sunshine and light cloud<\/li>\n<li>be robust and able to withstand extremes of climate <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Innovate UK will run this competition through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/sbri-the-small-business-research-initiative\">SBRI<\/a>, the Small Business Research Initiative. We will offer businesses with the most promising solution a contract with DFID to test and prove their innovation. <\/p>\n<p>We expect projects to have a value of up to \u00a350,000. Successful applicants will need to show their route to market in Africa.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"competition-information\">Competition information<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>this competition is open now<\/li>\n<li>the registration deadline is 2 December 2015 <\/li>\n<li>we expect projects to range in value up to \u00a350,000<\/li>\n<li>there will be a webinar for potential applicants on Monday 5 October 2015<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/interact.innovateuk.org\/competition-display-page\/-\/asset_publisher\/RqEt2AKmEBhi\/content\/solar-powered-irrigation-pump\">Find out more about this competition and apply<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/sbri-the-small-business-research-initiative\">Find out more about SBRI<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organisations can apply for a share of up to \u00a3800,000 to develop an affordable solar-powered irrigation pump for use in developing regions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}