tubewells

(sometimes referred to as tubewells) which can be fitted with a hand-pump to lift the water to the surface where it can be collected for use.

5. Water: General Principles 1994

The promotion of pumps and tubewells, which allow for the extraction of greatly increased amounts of water, began in the late 1980s through Agricultural Development Projects (ADPs).

Water profile of Nigeria 2008

The Special Program for Food Security (SPFS) of the FAO commenced in 1999 with a pilot phase including 280 ha in three villages in Kano State, where farmers were provided with motorized pumps and tubewells to enable them to engage in irrigated agriculture in the fadama lands.

Water profile of Nigeria 2008

Today, washbores and tubewells are most common in fadamas.

Water profile of Nigeria 2008

There are five cold storages, five deep and 27 mini tubewells in the locality, a clear indication that the land is well irrigated.

‘We will give blood, not our land’ - The battle for Singur has began Abhay N 2006

There are five cold storages, five deep and 27 mini tubewells in the locality, a clear indication that the land is well irrigated.

Archive 2006-11-01 Abhay N 2006

In the last couple of weeks, two of the five deep tubewells, providing irrigation water to the controversial land, were vandalised one after the other in the dark of the night.

Archive 2006-11-01 Abhay N 2006

In the last couple of weeks, two of the five deep tubewells, providing irrigation water to the controversial land, were vandalised one after the other in the dark of the night.

‘We will give blood, not our land’ - The battle for Singur has began Abhay N 2006

Drilled wells, tubewells or boreholes give access to groundwater in an aquifer and facilitate its abstraction.

Chapter 5 2000

However, in the area in which the system is currently in use, canal irrigation is widely supplemented by farmer-owned tubewells.

Chapter 11 1995