African Entrepreneurship Record

Bohemia Province.

Kosha Town, Kapolan City.

Kosha Town is a town in the western part of Bohemia Province. The climate is relatively dry, and the vegetation is mainly typical grassland and sand. Although the precipitation is relatively low, the agricultural development is very good.

In the past two decades, Kosha Town and surrounding towns have successively built a large number of water conservancy facilities in the area to divert the water of the Zambezi River to irrigate the land. More than 20 years ago, this place was still a paradise for wild animals, and the natural landscape was no different from many areas in Africa.

Under the transformation of East Africa, large and small canals are neatly planned throughout the entire Kapolan City, like a finely woven spider web, covering the land, and the water of the Zambezi River and its tributaries is introduced into the fields through these ditches, just like blood flowing in blood vessels.

At this time, the Kosha Town Government was receiving the city government personnel responsible for spot checks, and the mayor Tal led the staff of the Water Conservancy Bureau to the fifth branch canal for inspection.

Tal: "In order to successfully introduce river water into the fields, we have built seven new pumping stations at the fifth branch canal and other water sources, and pumped out river water continuously through water pumps. In the past, many of these pumping stations used steam engines as the main power. Now, according to the documents of the municipal government, we are connecting these pumping stations to power lines and energy supply methods."

The staff of the Water Conservancy Bureau looked at the small house standing by the branch canal and said: "Mayor Tal, do you mind if we go in and take a look?"

Tal: "Of course there is no problem. When building these pumping stations, we completed them under the guidance of professionals, fully in line with construction standards, and regularly perform maintenance work."

Then, under Tal's instructions, the staff of the town government took the key to the pumping station and opened the door.

The pumping station was built in a small house. These houses are all brick and stone structures and look relatively solid. They stand on the edge of the fifth branch canal. A relatively thick metal pipe extends from the bottom of the pumping station to the bottom of the fifth branch canal.

There are wooden electric poles beside the canal. These poles were obviously built not long ago and were numbered. A small hole extended from the poles into the wall of the pump station.

The door of the pump station is made of wood and does not look very solid. However, there is nothing valuable inside except the pump. Moreover, this large pump is not easy to move and is fixed on a concrete base.

After entering the pump station, the investigators from the Water Conservancy Bureau observed the internal structure of the entire pump station and the appearance of the pump.

It can be seen that this pump station did not cut corners. The masonry walls are flat and orderly, and the cement on the ground is also carried out according to the construction standards. If there is any cutting corners, it can be seen at a glance.

The body of the water pump is also very clean and tidy. Although there is some dust on the top, it is unavoidable. After all, it is impossible to clean it every two or three days.

The pump body is painted with conspicuous red paint. According to the paint spots falling on the ground, it can be inferred that Kosha Town must have painted it again after the water pump was installed.

The water pump had been painted when it left the factory, but it was inevitably bumped during installation, or the people in Kosa Town were worried that the original paint would fall off, so they painted an extra layer.

"Mayor Tal, you Kosa Town has done a good job. Next, we want to test their normal operation."

Tal naturally did not object. He came to a switch embedded in the wall and pushed it up. Soon the motor made a loud noise, and then the fifth branch canal under the pump station began to gurgle.

Because it was not time to release the water yet, there was not much water in the fifth branch canal, but it was definitely no problem to use it to test the working effect of the pump station.

As the pump worked, a steady stream of river water was pumped from the bottom through the pipe into the pump room, and then flowed into the small canal outside the pump room leading to the fields along the outlet. The clear river water spread along the ditch to the surrounding fields.

Of course, there are small gates between the fields and the ditches. Only when these small gates are opened will the water flow into the corresponding fields.

"The effect is good. This new type of pump station is mainly driven by electricity. As long as the power supply is stable, it is basically impossible to make too many mistakes. The advantage is that it does not require fuels such as coal or diesel, and the pollution is relatively small."

The agricultural water diversion in East Africa has mainly gone through three periods: windmills, steam pumps and internal combustion engine pumps. This time, the Water Conservancy Bureau inspected the latest electric pumps.

Electric pumps have been in East Africa for a long time, but it is not easy to replace traditional water pumps on a large scale. However, this does not mean that electric pumps have no shortcomings.

The most important one is the power supply problem. The power supply in East Africa is still relatively tight. If there is a power outage when the crops are short of water, it will be more troublesome. Of course, the probability of this happening is very small, but it must be prevented.

So at present, East Africa has windmills, steam pumps, internal combustion engine pumps and electric pumps, and four forms of agricultural water diversion coexist.

The advantage of windmills is that they are environmentally friendly, and the main power comes from wind energy, which has almost no cost, but no one can guarantee the size and time of the wind, so it is not stable.

At present, with the promotion of new water diversion technology, many windmills in East Africa have become "ruins" and no longer occupy a mainstream position. However, they can play a huge role when necessary, such as when there is a shortage of coal, oil and electricity at the same time.

Steam engine pumps have been greatly improved compared to windmills, but the efficiency is still relatively slow, and coal combustion efficiency is not high, so the smoke is very large. In this case, many steam engine pump rooms in East Africa have to follow chimneys, and boiler combustion will produce a large amount of cinders, which requires Timely cleaning has left most of the steam engine pump rooms in East Africa looking "gray".

Internal combustion engine pumps are much better, have high efficiency, relatively less smoke, and do not produce a lot of cinders, but oil resources are not as easy to obtain as coal, and the cost is higher than coal.

The electric pump has more advantages. The only headache is the power supply. In East Africa in the 20th century, the power supply was relatively tight.

Not to mention remote towns like Kosha, even developed cities in East Africa such as Dar es Salaam may face power shortages at any time.

Of course, for the East African government, the power supply problem is not unsolvable. After all, new power plants are being built in East Africa every year, and with the advancement of technology, the loss of long-distance power transportation is getting smaller and smaller. The construction of East African power infrastructure is relatively The First Five-Year Plan has made a lot of improvements, and as time goes by, power shortages will only become less and less common in East Africa.

After all, relatively remote places like Liankosha Town have abundant electricity to power water pumps, which shows that East Africa has made great progress in the promotion of electricity.

The small pumping station reflects East Africa's continuous innovation and experimentation with new technologies in the fields of agriculture and water conservancy construction. It can be said to be a technological revolution in pumping stations.

"Mayor Tal, I'll trouble you this time. We will truthfully report the construction status of the pump station in Kesha Town to the bureau. I believe the city is quite satisfied with this."

Tal sighed and said: "That's good, I just completed the tasks assigned by my superiors seriously."

An investigator from the Water Conservancy Bureau said: "This is already very rare. We have discovered some serious problems in other towns and villages. Not everyone can conscientiously complete the tasks assigned above, so this kind of surprise inspection is still Very necessary."

He continued with emotion: "Nowadays, the country's agricultural production and industry are the same. The standards are becoming more and more strict, and the efficiency of agricultural production has indeed been greatly improved. It can be seen from the changes in our water conservancy department over the past ten years. In the construction of water conservancy facilities, Standards are getting higher and higher, implementation is becoming more standardized, and supervision is getting stricter.”