Prime Minister Elijah Ngurare says he is impressed with the irrigation system and solar powered water pumping system at the Gaidip Agricultural farm.
 
Dr Ngurare wants the system at a farm located at the banks of the Orange River in the ||Kharas Region replicated in other regions.
 
Water is pumped from the Orange River into storage dams and then distributed across the fields through highly efficient irrigation work.
 
During the inauguration of the N$ 500 million agricultural farm, the Premier commended the project.

“This is precisely what we have been saying all along: we want water harvesting infrastructure, and there we have seen it; it is done here, done by Namibians. I think it is a company in Windhoek, as we have been told, and therefore I am happy that I came and I am going to report to the President. If we can put this infrastructure that we have seen here, maybe we can start at one region having each of that with that capacity of water that you can save in times of need that we can look at.”
 
NEC Energy was responsible for the engineering, power, and water supply system.
Owner of the company, Joring von Cossler, explains how the solar-powered pumping and irrigation systems were designed to maximize efficiency.
 
“We are pumping up to A and B, which are high storage dams that allow the water to flow down again into the evenings and afternoons to optimally irrigate the fields to make sure that all the water is irrigated to the plants, and we have installed backup generators for two or three days of cloudiness. We can install solar panels, and we install generators that we continuously produce of the water pumping even if there is no solar for three or four days in sequence.”
  
Owner of Agriturf, Marco de Wet, also give an overview of the project.
 
“We have been appointed on this project as the main irrigation designer as well as the product supplier and installer of the specialized system. This is a very unique project at Gaidip where we use a full upgrade solar system and storage as batteries, so we are pumping from the river up to holding dams and irrigating from these holding dams 24/7 to the irrigation fields. This is also a direct tiding system, so there are no batteries on the solar system; we run directly from the solar system to the motors.”