Introducing

The Sunflower Solar Pump

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About Futurepump

There are 500 million one-acre farmers around the world. The technology that Futurepump is developing is designed to tap into the needs of this huge global market. The Sunflower irrigation pump is both robust and portable. It offers smallholder farmers a cheaper, cleaner and more sustainable alternative to costly and polluting petrol or diesel pumps.

Irrigating crops on demand leads to more reliable harvests. It also gives farmers the opportunity to grow and sell crops out of season, bringing huge economic benefits to the farmers, their families and the wider community.

Futurepump is currently focusing its operations in Kenya and is working in partnership with iDE.

Info and pricing

The Sunflower is a portable, robust solar irrigation pump aimed at seasonal vegetable farmers. Petrol and diesel pumps are expensive and lock farmers into recurring fuel costs.

The Sunflower retails at $400 or 35,000 KSh and we also offer

payment plans.

Pumps up to 12,000 litres per day of irrigation water
Performance: 900 litres/hr at 6m, or 2,000 litres/hr at 1m
Portable design
Manual backup
Detachable 70 Wp solar panel for security
Works with storage tanks and drip systems
Robust hardwearing design
No circuitboards or small electronics to go wrong
Farmer-fixable

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The Sunflower in action with some of our farmers customers in Kenya

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The team

Gert Jan Bom

Technical Director

Gert Jan is the inventor of Futurepump’s solar pump technology. He has over 30 years of engineering experience in developing countries and also designed and developed the well-known Volanta hand pump. Gert Jan is the founder of the PRACTICA Foundation.

Jitendra Lakhani

Head of Operations, India

Jitendra is an experienced entrepreneur based in Pune, India. He has had a long career in design, development and manufacturing of industrial products based on mechanical, electrical and electronic engineering technologies.

Kinya Kimathi

Kenya Field Manager

Kinya formerly worked in Kenya’s geothermal energy industry. A mechanical engineer by training, Kinya is now responsible for managing our pilot Sunflower pump installations. She has a special interest in technology, poverty alleviation and the environment.

Nick Jeffries

Field Director

Nick is an international development expert and environmental engineer with a huge amount of field project successes in developing countries. Nick has worked for large international NGOs and charities including Save the Children.

Quentin Baynes

Financial Director

Quentin gained his qualifications with a 'big four' accountancy firm. He has a experience in designing, overseeing and managing complex financial systems and auditing for large multinational businesses.

Toby Hammond

Managing Director

Toby is an entrepreneur with extensive experience of low-cost manufacturing within the renewables industry, establishing new companies and building distribution networks.

Latest news

Nov 2014, Nairobi: Futurepump voted top start-up

Futurepump is the proud winner of an 'Innovations in Agriculture' award.

Together with Ojay Green, Futurepump was voted one of the top-ranked start-ups as part of the award run by Village Capital’s Innovations for Agriculture 2014 programme, which took place in Nairobi earlier this month. Futurepump will receive venture capital investment of USD $50,000.

Seven other start-ups took part in the programme. Each of these impressive early-stage companies are using business to fight poverty, working specifically towards solving issues faced by smallholder farmers across Kenya.