Farmer uses bike motor to irrigate crops

Visakhapatnam: Nothing is impossible, if one works with commitment and dedication and there is no need of any formal education and research to achieve the goals. A farmer proved this by inventing an eco-friendly device to pump water for irrigating his field.

Vexed with power cuts and unable to spend money for diesel and labour charges, a B Com graduate and farmer Bheesetti Mukunda Kumar, a native of Vadrapally village in Visakhapatnam district, invented an eco-friendly device fixing the same with his motor bike to lift water to his paddy field.

Kumar is now using his device fixed with his normal motor bike (Hero Splendor) and lifting the waters from a nearest agriculture well and irrigating his crop in the hot summer. Kumar invented this two-inch motor pipe after three-and-a-half-years research though the motor mechanics and mechanical engineers discouraged him in this regard.

Now, Kumar was lifting the waters for about two hours by using just one litre petrol. His new two-inch device was running without smoke and noise free. Particularly, there is no need of labourers for carrying the device.

At several agriculture fields due to the lack of the electrical poles, the farmers are using diesel generators to lift the waters to irrigate their crops. For which the farmers have to pay rent for the generator and it has to be carried by the labourers to the spot. Meanwhile, to run the generator for one hour, 1.5 litre diesel is required.

“In fact, there is no need of technology for my findings. However, the pump mechanics, borewell operators and mechanical engineers not accepted my argument and said that it is not possible. However, sitting with a motor-bike mechanic and read how the engine rotates with the soft and impeller. Later, I studied about the water lift motor and how its work.

Finally, I found that the motor and the bike engine will rotate with same RPMs. With the help of the electrical and mechanical fitters and prepared a two-inch pump set and fixed the same to the engine by making a hole to the side of the engine,” Mukunda Kumar explained his three years experiment.

At present Kumar he is using his Hero Splendor bike to lift the waters from 25 feet well and pumping to 200 feet long fields. He is presently using normal bike. When asked about the increase the capacity of the device, he said that he is supposed to take up more experiments with high horse power bikes.

But the device has to be remade according to the bike capacity. Some of the agriculture officials met and asked to give a demonstration about device and appreciated his efforts. He temporarily titled his project as ‘Smart Water Bike’.

By VK Lakshmi Gayatri