IDEI wins the Enterprise Award for, in the words of the judging panel, "commercialising a simple, sustainable technology which helps poor farmers achieve massive improvements in yield and income" . IDEI has promoted and marketed over half a million treadle pumps to farmers in the plains of Eastern India. This simple device that uses human power to pump water up onto farmers' fields allows them to grow crops all year round rather than wait for the monsoon. This stops farmers migrating to the cities for work, allowing them to stay on the land all year round

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