Partnership with Xao Ban Sunday, 25 September 2005 Xao Ban is a small Lao organization that operates income-generating ventures for farmers through processing and marketing. The management has also been trained in micro-irrigation. Sunlabob has entered into an operational partnership with Xao Ban in order to jointly develop the service package for the solar pumps. Xao Ban is presently already experimenting with the Indian technology that we imported for testing purposes.