Odisha farmer develops irrigation system from bamboo sticks, plastic bottles

Fed up with poor irrigation conditions in and around his farmland, a “poor” farmer in Odisha has come up with a water lifting system made only with bamboo and plastic bottles. Mahur Tipiria, a resident of Badamtalia vill, Mayurbhanj district, devised this system in an effort to efficiently irrigate his farmland from nearest water source-a river two kilometres away. Speaking to ANI later, he revealed that despite multiple petitions, government did t help, refore he devised his “own irrigation system”.

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How does it work?

rar eco-friendly system does t use electricity but just gravity to pull water out of river. bamboo is placed on a sloping structure as its wheels rotate with water current, lifting water from source. water is n collected in used plastic water bottles. water is n channelized through bamboo pipes towards farmlands. system t only helps Tipiria but also or farmers nearby. 

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Speaking about idea behind his invation, peasant revealed he had filed multiple petitions to governments but body came to rescue. "I am a poor man and have money. I had filed a petition after petition to government offices but one came to help us. So I decided to develop this technique by myself with my own intelligence," he said.

A few months ago, a superintendent of police in Uttar Pradesh's Jhansi district took to Twitter to share a farmers ‘jugaad’ to keep crop-damaging insects away. ‘Locust is mor of invention’, Rahul Srivastav wrote in caption. In video, one can see an ‘aeroplane’ mounted on a long pole in middle of a field. ‘aeroplane’ itself is a creative hack as it is made out of moving fan blades, a plastic bottle, a soda can and a cardboard tail. In short 15-second clip, ‘aeroplane’ can be seen rotating atop pole and making a loud ise that would help keep locusts away. 

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