SLM Database

A Terrace is a structural SLM practice with a raised flat platform built on the slope to reduce soil loss and runoff on the slope, increase the rainfall infiltration and yield.

• Compiler: Fei WANG
• 12/31/2010 2:42 nm.

Check dam for land is a structural SLM practice that is constructed in the valley of a watershed in order to slow down the runoff and increase sedimentation. After this, the land quality of the controlling area will increase because soil and water conditions in this place are improved.

• Compiler: Fei WANG
• 05/11/2011 10:59 vm.

A terrace is a kind of measure to change the slope, which has a raised bank of earth or stone with vertical or sloping sides and a approximately flat top.

• Compiler: Meili WEN
• 12/29/2010 7:38 vm.

By established facilities and use organic matter of animal manure, human waste, plant straw for anaerobic fermentation to produce inflammable biogas for uses of lighting, cooking with the residue liquid and dreg for high quality organic fertilizer.

• Compiler: Yaolin Wang
• 08/27/2010 10:45 vm.

Plantation of Apocynum pictum and Apocynum venetum as protective and profitable indigenous plants - on soils made saline through irrigation of cotton without adequate drainage.

• Compiler: Christian Rumbaur
• 04/01/2016 2:45 nm.

A Rat tunnel is a kind of subdrainage. It is a drainage duct formed through extrusion or oscillation in soil layer by pulling a mole plough with a tractor. The rat tunnels in a field should be used together with a concealed conduit drainage system in order to safely and …

• Compiler: Mei Zhao
• 02/28/2013 12:13 nm.

Planting Horsetail Beefwood as a shelter belt along seaside to prevent serious wind and water erosion/destroy of the cropland.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 11/23/2010 1:37 nm.

Zero tillage technology was developed to protect the soils from sealing rainfall, to achieve and maintain a open internal soil structure, to enhance biological processes in the soil, and to develop a means for safe disposal of any surface runoff that nevertheless will occur.

• Compiler: Zhanguo Bai
• 12/01/2010 1:19 nm.

Auto-flowing slurry dams is filled with dense slurry by water flow from upland to maintain eroded soil particles and runoff.

• Compiler: Yan ZHANG
• 12/06/2010 3:16 nm.

Check dam refers to dam that constructed in the gullies or river ways and the height of the dam is often lower than 5m.

• Compiler: Haiyan WEI
• 12/14/2010 1:32 nm.