In Kalale, Benin, the citizens had suffered
without any fresh vegetables and crops which lead to malnutrition and sickness
due to dry weather during six months.
Mamoudo Setamou, a professor of agronomy at Texas A&M
University-Kingsville, who is a native in Benin and heard about the result from
his homeland. Setamou contact Robert
Freling, the executive director of Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF), to improve
Benin current state. SELF successfully
help two villages in Kalale, Dunkassa and Bessassi by using solar power and
drip irrigation. The first plan they completed
was installing the solar drip irrigation system. The device was design to pull the water from
a reservoir, then travels through a couple of pipes, and targets the roots of
the plant. Freling said the drip
irrigation is also assist by the energy of the sun. The project to save Benin
was a success and it achieve by grow a ton of vegetables like eggplant,
carrots, and tomatoes. SELF will help to
pay for the solar-drip system so it can continue working in Benin.
From
reading this article, I learn how technology will help a village from a dry
season. Also, it helps farmers to grow
their crop and vegetables. I like how SELF
explain the solar drip irrigation works with the other villages in Benin. This is a good strategy for West Africa to
avoid the shortage of the food production.
This strategy is helpful for farmers but the drip irrigation is
expensive to build and to process. It is
a difficult strategy to accomplish due to the price but having a mindset like
SELF did, this will help many citizens to have a place to grow some crops and vegetables
which they need to survive during the dry seasons.
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