CSISA Project

Groundwater is the primary source of irrigation in Nepal’s Terai regions. Shallow tube well drilling is the traditional and standard method to pump out the water bore. However, this practice is more expensive, time-consuming, and laborious. Thus, CSISA has designed and developed a mechanical technology to drill the borewell using a power tiller, which reduces the overall costs and completes the task faster than the conventional manual method.
https://csisa.org/improved-shallow-tube-well-drill-rig/

Dev Kumar Bala, the owner of Dev Kumar Machinery, has been working in the agrimachinery industry for the past 28 years in the district of Faridpur in Bangladesh's south-central region. Through a dealer connection network that links him to Bangladeshi agrimachinery manufacturers, he has connected with CSISA Mechanization Initiative, funded by USAID Bangladesh.

After engaging with CSISA-MEA, his net profit has doubled over the past five years, rising from USD 1845 (BDT 2 lac) in 2019 to USD 9228 (BDT 10 lac) by the middle of this year. Mr. Bala sells around 30 rice transplanters, 200 power tiller operator seeders (PTOS), 200 power threshers, and numerous agrimachinery spare parts each year.

Mr. Bala expressed, "Due to the dealer linkage of CSISA-MEA, I got connected with local manufacturers of different districts of Bangladesh which is helping to grow my business and availability of agrimachines to the farmers."



International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)
iDE Bangladesh

USAID Bangladesh funded CSISA Mechanization project supports smart agricultural mechanization in Bangladesh by developing the capacity of the private sector to manufacture and market innovative technologies. This assistance enables farmers to mechanize agricultural production, thereby maintaining national food security.
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International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) iDE Bangladesh