SLM Database

Plastic tanks of 50 to 100 liters of water with taps are placed on high platforms. Perforated plastic tubes allow water to flow and drip irrigate vegetable patches. Home gardening, once established can be carried out throughout the year.

• Compiler: betty adoch
• 06/08/2017 1:04 nm

Spring ground water reservoir to supply water for the fish pond during dry season to be harvested throughout the year.

• Compiler: betty adoch
• 06/14/2017 4:11 nm

Fish farming, commonly referred to as aquaculture, is one of the common practices promoted by small, medium and large scale farmers in Amuru District, Northern Uganda. Labour, hoes, wheelbarrows, spades and slashers are used for establishment. The technology is established on a gently sloping physical environment located mainly at the ...

• Compiler: betty adoch
• 07/03/2017 10:13 vm

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

the SWC technology entails growing of markhamia lutea trees like food crops involving application of manure and mulch.

• Compiler: Alex Lwakuba
• 02/24/2011 11:34 vm

A percolation pit is an excavation in the ground in the pathway of water runoff to intercept the flow of the water and thereby reduce erosion and destruction of crops, settlements and other infrastructure downstream

• Compiler: Philip Tibenderana
• 10/07/2016 11:16 vm

Rotational grazing by improved goats variety enhances/ increases soil fertility, biodiversity and production of pastures and generates farmyard manure applied on cropland.

• Compiler: betty adoch
• 05/03/2017 7:26 vm

Laying grass (Poaceae) on perennial cropped land to reduce weeds, retain soil moisture and improve soil fertility.

• Compiler: Kamugisha Rick Nelson
• 06/11/2017 8:53 vm

Run off water from a hill is harnessed and concentrated in a banana plantation using diversion and retention ditches respectively.

• Compiler: Alex Lwakuba
• 02/24/2011 11:05 vm