SLM Database

The ridge sowing technology utilizes a special seeder, which is operated with special machinery and at the same time cuts the irrigation furrows and sows crops’ seeds on ridges. This method is primarily improved irrigation water use efficiency, reduced water erosion and more importantly lowers the expenses on irrigation water …

• Compiler: Abdybek Asanaliev
• 12/16/2011 8:20 a.m.

Cleaning the spring and creating an animal watering point to reduce livestock trampling and erosion

• Compiler: Abdybek Asanaliev
• 04/10/2012 4:45 p.m.

Windbreaks of poplar trees (Populus nigra pyramidalis) are a major agroforestry system in irrigated agriculture across Central Asia. Such windbreaks reduce the overall water consumption of irrigated agriculture by 10-20% and increase farm income by 10-15%.

• Compiler: Niels Thevs
• 03/09/2021 4:32 p.m.

Poplars planted to lower the ground water table and reduce salinity where irrigation drainage systems have broken down; lucerne cultivated between the tree lines.

• Compiler: Abdybek Asanaliev
• 06/06/2011 8:50 p.m.

Organizing crop rotations as a way to use land efficiently, taking into account the economic interests of landowners and land users, as well as ecological and economic factors.

• Compiler: Dzhumabaeva Salamatkhan
• 06/27/2019 9:14 a.m.