aQysta - Barsha Pump

Food security is one of the largest global issues, with almost one billion people suffering from hunger. Smallholder farmers are often affected despite accounting for 70% of global food production. Their productivity needs to increase despite climate change-induced extreme weather events. Rain-fed farming limits yield and income, exposing these farmers to low market prices.

Access to irrigation is one of the most effective ways to create agricultural resilience, boosting productivity by 2 to 5 times compared to rain-fed farming. The Barsha Pump provides reliable irrigation, enabling smallholder farmers to transition from subsistence to commercial farming. This substantially increases their economic prosperity as they can grow commercial crops and farm during the dry season, achieving higher prices.

aQysta has exported 300 pumps to 18 countries, benefiting over 5,000 users. The Barsha Pump has irrigated more than 200 hectares of land, pumped over 300 million litres of water, and mitigated 100 tons of CO2 emissions.