Environmental workshop - cycle pumps again

This year has been very successful for small farmers in Nicaragua, who have had an excellent harvest in most parts of the country. The Nicaraguan government has prioritized agricultural production for domestic consumption. Some local small farmers have thus been able to invest in improvements to their equipment. For the cooperative's environmental workshop that has meant an increase in interest in the simple but very efficient cycle pump system of which over 200 have been produced and distributed by the workshop over several years. When combined with a drip-irrigation system, the cycle pump enables a small farmer to irrigate readily up up to an acre of land  sown with vegetables or fruit bearing trees and plants