SLM Database

Activities that help maintain the productive potentials of soils through prevention and reduction of erosion, enhancing of rehabilitation rate by practicing measures such as microbasins, trench, eyebrow terrace, terraces, pitting and plantation of trees.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 05/30/2011 3:51 p.m.

It is a structural measure constructed across the slope to control erosion and increase soil moisture.

• Compiler: Daniel Danano
• 05/30/2011 2:16 p.m.

level bund with double stone walls with soil and grass to stabilize the structure

• Compiler: Sabina Erny
• 05/29/2011 10:59 p.m.

Rehabilitation of communal grazing lands, through planting of improved grass and fodder trees and land subdivision, to improve fodder and consequently livestock production.

• Compiler: Daniel Danano
• 05/29/2011 9:18 p.m.

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.