More Crop Per Drop'''

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More Crop Per Drop...

• Can Micro-Irrigation Help Alleviate the
  Groundwater Depletion?

Shilp Verma IWMI-India
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Farm vs. System Level Efficiencies

• Farm Level
• Water Saving
• Higher Yields
• More Area Under Irrigation!

• System Level
• More Crop per Drop
• Reducing or Alleviating GW Depletion
• Mass Adoption

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What Are We Marketing

• A New Concept in Agriculture
• Water Saving
• Innovative and Sophisticated Technology
• Good Pay Back Period and IRR
• Labour Saving
• High Quality Products
• Higher Yields
• A Package Solution

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Wheres the Demand?

• Farmers want
• Lower Costs
• Higher and Better Yields
• Less Pumping Hours
• Simple Technology
• Generic Application
• Assured Returns

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Bridging This Gap

• Shifting Micro-Irrigation from Investment-Mode to
  Input Mode
• From something thatll provide returns over ten
  years to making it a recurring input cost
• From Custom-Solutions to a Package Solution to
  Farmer-Assembled Systems
• Farmers want to buy pipes, drippers, fittings but
  not drip-kits

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Pepsee Systems

• Grassroots Innovation Under Groundwater Stress

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Pepsee System of Irrigation

• Pepsee systems is a low cost alternative of drip
  irrigation system. It does not require micro tube
  or emitter to place water directly to the root
  zone instead the lateral, which is called
  Pepsee a light-weight plastic pipes used for
  making ice candy locally called Pepsee, is
  placed directly to the root zone of plants.

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How Pepsee overcomes the hurdles to adoption of
water saving technologies...
Hurdles...
Solution offered...

• High Initial Capital Investment (1,200 per acre)
• Problems in Storage
• Technical Know-how required

• Very Low Initial Investment (85 per acre)
• No Storage Needed Use and Throw!
• Simple Technology Farmer Assembled!

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• Pepsee system in itself is not a complete
  substitute for more sophisticated
  micro-irrigation technologies. However, it can
  effectively be used as a Stepping Stone and as a
  tool to promote large scale adoption of Water
  Saving Technologies...

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Thank You!