SLM Database

Production of fodder crops every year both for feeding livestock and increasing soil fertility.

• Compiler: Faruk Ocakoglu
• 02/28/2011 8:24 p.m.

Drip irrigation is a method designed for minimum use of water and labour for the optimum irrigation of plants in arid and semi-arid regions.

• Compiler: Faruk Ocakoglu
• 03/01/2011 9:45 a.m.

Wooden fences are an effective and relatively cheap way of conserving soil from water erosion by decreasing overland flow. They also increase crop yield by encouraging better infiltration.

• Compiler: Faruk Ocakoglu
• 02/26/2012 3:01 p.m.

Strip farming is a kind of an agriculture method that cereals are sowed as strips which are 50 m witdh (strip-fallow-strip). Strips are perpendicular to wind direction in dropugth areas.

• Compiler: Mehmet Zengin
• 03/01/2011 10:16 a.m.

Allowing livestocks to graze in pasturelands in a periodic and regular manner.

• Compiler: Mehmet Zengin
• 03/02/2011 7:13 p.m.

Teak commonly refered to as Tectona grandis is preferred as a timber species in Northern Uganda by both small, medium and large scale farmers. A teak plantation is normally established for purposes of providing timber and income but also sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide and act as wind break.

• Compiler: betty adoch
• 05/31/2017 5:32 p.m.

The irrigation fertilizer system is an innovation designed to distribute manure and water in a banana plantation. A kraal (livestock zero grazing shed) with a cow dung reservior, set up uphill and connected with pipes to deliver diluted cow dug to a banana plantation downslope. This reduces the labor required …

• Compiler: Aine Amon
• 01/31/2018 7:15 a.m.

The improved variety of cassava known as Nafe14 is grown on a gentle slope. Animal traction was used to plough 43 acres of land. The land was initially used for growing soya beans. The cassava garden has some trenches dug across so to control flooding and soil erosion. By this …

• Compiler: betty adoch
• 05/31/2017 9:03 a.m.

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 a.m.

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 p.m.