SLM Database

Integrating black spear grass (Heteropogon Contortus), elephant grass (Pennisetum Purpureum) and trenches into a Citrus orchard of Oranges (Citrus Sinensis) for soil and water erosion control.

• Compiler: Kamugisha Rick Nelson
• 06/12/2017 8:58 vm.

Trenches commonly referred to as “fanny juu, fanya chini” increase water infiltration and reduce soil erosion.

• Compiler: Kamugisha Rick Nelson
• 05/17/2017 11:43 vm.

Waterhole is excavated for abstracting underground water for watering livestock as well as irrigating crops during the dry season.

• Compiler: Kamugisha Rick Nelson
• 05/18/2017 1:21 nm.

A portable wooden frame solar drier with polythene cover used for drying low moisture content crop produce such as chili and maize. The crop is placed inside the drier and takes 2-3 days to dry depending on the humidity and moisture content at harvest.

• Compiler: Sunday Balla Amale
• 12/20/2017 4:56 nm.

Ficus natalensis based agroforestry system protects crops on windy hill slopes facing Lake Victoria and reduce runoff towards the meandering Kagera River Valley.

• Compiler: Wilson Bamwerinde
• 04/25/2013 3:12 nm.

Improving soil fertility for both animal and perennial crops on flat area using mulching.

• Compiler: Wilson Bamwerinde
• 05/13/2013 8:47 vm.

Digging trenches on a gentle slope in banana plantation in Rwerazi.

• Compiler: Wilson Bamwerinde
• 05/15/2013 3 nm.

Fallowing in the cultivated land that is left unseeded for one or more growing seasons , to regain fertility for crops and its on a hill slope.

• Compiler: Wilson Bamwerinde
• 06/04/2013 10:27 vm.

Rain-water from all corrugated iron roof structures in one compound is harvested and stored in underground tanks.

• Compiler: Wilson Bamwerinde
• 12/09/2013 11:54 vm.

Intensive zero-grazing of hybrid dairy Hybrid (Holstein Friesian) cattle to produce a constant high yield of milk all-year around.

• Compiler: Kamugisha Rick Nelson
• 05/02/2017 1:33 nm.