USA-based non-profit YeTI Photovoltaic, Inc. provides solar-powered water pumps to micro-farmers @ Nepal in partnership with Kathmandu-based Gham Power.
Founded and seed-funded by Oxford solar scientist PhD candidate Jake Drysdale and international lawyer Douglas B Drysdale, YeTI Photovoltaic established Nepal's first-ever Solar Water Pump Fund with Gham Power in 2019.
Nepal has more than 10,000 micro-farmers, many of whom rely upon a few months of monsoon rains to irrigate their crops. With solar water pumps provided by the Nepal Solar Water Pump Fund, however, micro-farmers can increase revenue by pumping groundwater all year to irrigate crops and increase production.
With increased income over time, micro-farmers PAY FORWARD — instead of payback — the cost of their pumps into the Nepal Solar Water Pump Fund for the purpose of providing more solar water pumps to more micro-farmers.
The Nepal Solar Water Pump Fund is designed to create a growing, continuous, and self-sustaining source of funding for solar water pumps for micro-farmers.
Learn more about Gham Power and how solar water pumps help micro-farmers @ Nepal here and here
Kanchanpur, Nepal
4 acre micro-farm growing rice, wheat, onions, potatoes, & sugarcane
Parsa, Nepal
2.5 acre micro-farm growing rice, wheat, onions, potatoes, & green vegetables
Kailali, Nepal
1.9 acre micro-farm growing rice, wheat, maize, onions, potatoes, & cauliflower
Bara, Nepal
0.9 acre micro-farm growing maize, onions, potatoes, & cabbage
Kapilvastu, Nepal
2.5 acre micro-farm growing rice, wheat, onions, potatoes, & green vegetables
Dang, Nepal
3 acre micro-farm growing rice, wheat, onions, potatoes, green vegetables, cauliflower, & mustard
