Strategies of traditional shifting cultivation [Bangladesh]
Tradtional appraoch to jhuming involving tribal institutions and traditonal knowledge based technologies.
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Tradtional appraoch to jhuming involving tribal institutions and traditonal knowledge based technologies.
This is an indigenous approach to store rain water for irrigating rice and other crops in the hillside earthen dam.
Active participation with innovative ideas to change livelihood adapting parmanent farming in hill region.
The aim of this technology is to use the waterlogged soils, which remain under water during 6 to 7 months of a year, for vegetable seedlings. This is done through floating seed beds which are made of water hyacinths.
The technology is called pitcher irrigation technology because irrigation water is provided from an earthen pitcher which has several small holes on its bottom. The earthen pitcher is placed on a raised bed which is filled with fresh irrigation water having several pores on its bottom. Then jute fibres are …
Gher (shrimp cultivation) boundary usage for multiple cropping.
Transforming an area of the denuded low hills of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) into an organic farm and tourism site
The technology promotes the lifting of river water by pump sets and conveys the water through buried pipelines to a canal. The conserved canal water is used for irrigation delivered by low lift pumps (LLP). Because water is held in the canal it revitalises the ecosystem along its length. Furthermore, …
Balanced fertiliser use( Shusomo shar babohar) technology is absolutely suitable for reducing land degradation as well as increasing crop productivity,
Choi Jhal (Piper chaba), locally called morich lota is a creeping vine that is grown in homesteads of saline areas. It is adapted to soil salinity, grows under shade and is a very high value crop. It remains green throughout the year, reducing evapotranspiration from the soil and hence reduces …