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[[Image:Treadle_pump.PNG|thumb|right|150px| The bamboo version of the treadle pump used in Bangladesh ]]
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The treadle pump for irrigation was developed in the late 1970's in Bangladesh. After wide-scale promotion by IDE International Development Enterprise, they are now being produced in 300 local workshops and used by more than one million poor rural families that otherwise could not have afforded an irrigation pump. With this technology, many families have increased their income. Some farmers who started with this pedal pump have now bought a motorized pump.
The treadle pump is also being promoted in Africa where it is installed by organisations like Kickstart (former Approtec) and EW Enterprise Works. Models of the treadle pump like the Moneymaker and the Soka-pump are now widely used for small-scale "spray" irrigation.
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- Cost effective Simple and cheap<br>- Produced in local workshops . <br>| con= - Pumping depth limited to 7m.
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* East Africa [http://www.kickstart.org www.kickstart.org]
* East and West Africa [http://www.enterpriseworks.org www.enterpriseworks.org]
* India [http://ide-india.org/ide/treadlepump.shtml ideInternational Development Enterprises India (IDE-indiaIndia)]* [http://www.ideorg.org/idelibrary/treadlepumpourlife_much_better.shtmlphp "Our life is much better" - a case study from Zambia, by IDE]