SLM Database

A hillside terrace is a structure along the contour, where a strip of land is levelled for tree planting.

• Compiler: Hans Hurni
• 02/13/2011 12:20 p.m.

Multiple cropping is an agronomic practice of growing two or more crops on the same land simultaneously in a given growing season

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 02/14/2011 2:28 p.m.

It is an allignment of stones embankment at the lower/downslope of the trench dug to form earth embankment following a contour.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 02/24/2011 9:38 a.m.

Stone wall check dams are built across a gully to collect alluvial soil and hinder further gully erosion.

• Compiler: Simon Bach
• 10/19/2011 4:57 p.m.

Stone faced embankment constructed along the contour to reduce soil loss

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 06/02/2011 12:27 p.m.

It is constructed along the contour to minimize soil erosion and prevent runoff damage from down stream fields.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 06/02/2011 11:49 a.m.

Desho grass strip is a vegetative SWC measure used for stablizing the bund and provide fodder for animals.

• Compiler: Daniel Danano
• 05/30/2011 4:20 p.m.

It is a stone wall built across a gully at a given interval to trap moisture and sediment for crop production.

• Compiler: Daniel Danano
• 05/30/2011 1:25 p.m.

Vegetated graded soil bund is a soil conservation practice meant for cultivated lands and constructed by excavating graded channel on upper side and develop embankment on lower side which is planted with grass or shrub species in order to control soil erosion and drain excess runoff implemented through community mobilization.

• Compiler: Gizaw Desta Gessesse
• 05/12/2014 1:28 p.m.

Gully erosion management is the application of combination of practices to control excess or concentrated runoff generation in the gully upstream catchment area, divert excess runoff upstream of gully heads and control further development of gully using appropriate structural and vegetative measures in the head, bed and sides of the …

• Compiler: Gizaw Desta Gessesse
• 05/08/2014 10:06 a.m.