Thanks To The Solar Power Pump Ganjar Pranowo, Farmers In Purworejo Central Java Harvest 3 Times A Year

Farmers in Krandegan Village, Bayan District, Purworejo Regency, showed solar water pumps assisted by Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo. (ANTARA/HO-Humas Central Java Provincial Government)

PURWOREJO - Farmers in Krandegan Village, Bayan District, Purworejo Regency, can now harvest three times a year thanks to the assistance of Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo in the form of a solar water pump of IDR 450 million sourced from the Central Java Provincial Government Budget in 2022. "After the solar water pump assistance was used to operate agricultural irrigation water pumps. Thank God the community was very happy and helped irrigate the rice fields," said a farmer in Krandegan Village, Mustangin, in Purworejo Regency, quoted from Antara, Sunday, January 8. According to him, the assistance is very helpful for farmers in his village who have been using the rain system to irrigate their rice fields. He explained that the solar power panel functions to turn on the water pump to suck up the water from the Dolang River which is then channeled into the rice field area through the ditch. The fulfillment of water needs for agriculture, he continued, allows farmers to plant three times and harvest three times a year. In addition, assistance can also reduce the burden on farmers, especially to get water. He revealed, before receiving assistance from the solar water pump from the Governor of Central Java, farmers use diesel engines every dry season, where once planting period requires up to five waterways with a need for 10 liters of diesel every time irrigate. Another farmer named Muh Sokeh said that diesel purchases are now limited so that the existence of solar water pumps makes it easier to access irrigation for farmers and farmers can also get water for free. " “ Oleh that's why farmers in Krandegan Village are greatly helped by solar water pumps. Water is a basic necessity. Now farmers are more successful," he said. Krandegan Village Apparatus, Hendro Triyantoro, added that Governor Ganjar Pranowo's assistance could produce 18 thousand watts of electricity and the existence of the device could help meet 70 percent of the water needs of the total 200 hectares of rice fields in his village. “ There are about 100 farmers who feel the benefits of the solar water pump, if in the past they could only grow once or twice, now it can be three times. In the past, when the dry season often failed to harvest due to lack of water, now it's no longer," he said.