Provide technical and financial management training to at least 100 manufacturers and sales agents associated with these technologies. Progress Report Sales have exceeded project targets. Over 3,200 treadle pumps and nearly 745 wrapped screens have been sold since 1991. Since manual pumps allow farmers to shift labor from water lifting and distribution to other gardening tasks, their use increases farm income without causing any net labor displacement. An EnterpriseWorks survey found that the treadle pump has reduced the average farmer's irrigation time to 4.1 hours per day, allowing the typical user to increase the area under cultivation by as much as 40 percent.
Wrapped screens yield twice as much well water.
Research shows that, on average, farmers using the wrapped screen subsequently doubled the amount of water filling their wells. This additional water allows them to expand their cultivated area, increase their crop yields, and in some cases even lengthen the growing season. The development of new equipment has simplified the installation of wrapped screens, which previously required descending to the bottom of the well. Four pump manufacturers had been trained to produce and install wrapped screens by the end of 1998. A payment plan has facilitated pump sales.