SLM Database

A solar water pump is a technology that uses solar panels to convert the solar power to electricity for pumping water from different sources including an underground source of water. The use of solar water pump is to reduces the operating costs, and avoid the CO2 emission, which is a …

• Compiler: Sok Pheak
• 10/12/2017 9:12 a.m.

Intercropping of eggplants between mango trees and the application of straw mulching on the plants’ roots and the land so as to retain soil moisture by reducing heat-induced evaporation. When the rice straw rots, it provides organic matter and makes soil less compact. The farmer can benefit from the short-term …

• Compiler: Navin Chea
• 05/17/2017 4:16 a.m.

Rice husks as well as empty seeds are pyrolised and used as a soil amendment in the rice seed beds and the vegetable gardens.

• Compiler: Stefan Graf
• 10/27/2014 12:32 a.m.

The rotational intercropping of vegetables between mango trees is a form of agroforestry. The technique aims to bear yield and income to the farmers when the trees do not bear fruit at young stage. Further purposes are the permanent soil cover which impede weed growth, reduces evaporation and soil erosion, …

• Compiler: Be Gechkim
• 05/14/2017 1:34 p.m.

The agroforestry practice based on intercropping of pineapple between mango and orange trees helps to maintain soil nutrients while enhancing potential economic benefits through multiple cropping to meet the market demand.

• Compiler: Be Gechkim
• 06/22/2017 5:26 a.m.

Digging ponds on farms to harvest rain water used for irrigating crops during drought provides a means for addressing a lack of water at the start of crop cultivation, both before the start of the rainy season and after the end of the rainy season. The main objective of this …

• Compiler: Nary Lay
• 06/24/2017 1:34 p.m.

Norias are water-pumping wheels made of bamboo which are used to irrigate paddy fields in order to increase the yield.

• Compiler: Christoph Kaufmann
• 10/27/2014 3:16 a.m.

Ponds are used at household level to raise fish as well as to irrigate vegetable gardens and rice seedlings

• Compiler: Christoph Kaufmann
• 10/16/2014 5:34 p.m.

Small-scale biogas systems fed with cow manure and water are implemented in order to supply the household with energy for cooking and lighting, as well as to produce fertilizer.

• Compiler: Christoph Kaufmann
• 10/27/2014 4:13 a.m.

Some points of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) technology, like the row transplanting of young seedlings and the use of compost are adapted and applied in Kampong Chhnang.

• Compiler: Christoph Kaufmann
• 10/16/2014 4:17 p.m.