We design, install and monitor irrigation, greenhouse and soil-sensing systems for farms in Nigeria. We start at the water source and finish at the plant.
A borehole gives you a certain number of litres an hour, and it has to hold through the season. A pump sized to that yield. Filtration that has to survive harmattan dust and silt. Mains, submains, laterals, and at the far end an emitter that either delivers its 1.6 litres an hour or does not.
Most of what goes wrong on a plot goes wrong quietly, somewhere in that middle — a blocked lateral, a pressure drop nobody measured, a bed already at field capacity when the valve opened. We design the chain, install it, and then keep reading it. We make the middle legible.
Lines of work, usually installed together
Steps from the first site visit to monitoring
Sensing depths per zone, at 20 and 40 cm
Days a week the sensors report from the plot
Water delivered to the root zone at a rate the soil can actually accept, on a schedule the crop needs. Emitter spacing set by soil texture and row width, not by habit. Pump, filtration, mains and pressure-compensating laterals — so the last emitter matches the first.
Read the irrigation line →Growth stage, canopy condition and stress signals tracked through the season, so an intervention happens in the week it matters rather than the week after.
Read the monitoring line →Moisture and temperature at two depths, paired inside and outside the wetted zone — so you can tell an irrigation event from a rainfall event, and a dry plot from a dry season.
Read the sensing line →Source, storage and volume treated as one system: yield and drawdown at the borehole, storage sized for the dry-season peak, and water clean enough not to close the emitters. Usually the first work we do.
Read the water line →Growing under cover changes the water, the heat load and the dust. The greenhouse work is set out separately.
See greenhouse systems →A scheme is not a product you buy. It is a sequence you run, and the order matters more than the equipment.
Water source and yield, static and pumping level, elevation, soil texture at depth, crop and spacing — and what the power does at four in the afternoon.
Emitter rate and spacing from the soil. Zones from the flow you actually have. A drawing, a bill of materials and a run schedule, priced line by line.
Pump, filtration, mains, submains and laterals. Trenched where trenching earns its cost. Every valve and zone labelled, because someone else will operate this.
Flush, pressure-test, then calibrate emitters zone by zone against a catch test. We hand it to the people who will run it, and watch them run it.
Sensors report twice a week. We read the dashboard with you through the first season, and a digest lands on Monday with what changed and what to do about it.
What a first season looks like when the parts are in place, written out so you can hold it against your own plot. It is not a case study. No client, and no figure below, is real.
One borehole, metered at the head. Static and pumping level logged weekly.
Two sensor pairs per zone at 20 and 40 cm, inside and outside the wetted zone.
A dashboard the farm manager opens before the crew arrives. A digest on Monday.
A site visit at the end of each month, and a written scheme review each season.
It is the reading that changes the decision, not the hardware.
Tell us about the plot — where the water comes from, what you grow, and how many hectares you are trying to reach. We will tell you what it takes.