SLM Database

Use of compost basket pits, farm yard manure application, nutrient tapping sub soil agro-forestry, mulching application and productive vegetative stabilized cross slope barriers to improve soil health in Kibanja farming system.

• Compiler: ALLAN BUBELWA
• 08/06/2014 9:36 a.m.

This is a traditional banana and coffee complex cropping system interplanted with annual crops, trees,shrubs, vegetables and other diverse plants of social economic importance.

• Compiler: Jasson Rwazo
• 12/05/2012 10:08 a.m.

A forest management system whereby trees are inter-cropped with annual crops until when the crops below can no longer flourish due to the dense canopy of trees.

• Compiler: Philip Ileta
• 04/30/2013 4:35 p.m.

Under the "Khok-Nong-Na" model, the far area is divided into 30:30:30:10. 30% is for water resources (ponds and water channels), 30% for paddy rice, 30% for the upland area (mound) with forest or economic trees and 10% for settlements and animal husbandry. The application of the Khok-Nong-Na model in highland …

• Compiler: Pitayakon Limtong
• 10/13/2018 2:24 p.m.

Eucalyptus camaldulensis variety H4 is salt tolerant and has the ability to lower shallow saline groundwater levels; as a result salinity is controlled. Planting eucalyptus on one or two sides of the rice bund in an east-west direction (in single or double rows) at a spacing of 2 m between …

• Compiler: Areerat Wangkaew
• 10/03/2018 8:19 a.m.

Biological charcoal, or biochar, is porous charcoal obtained from biomass. Biochar as a soil amendment helps improve soil fertility as well as sequestering carbon in the soil.

• Compiler: Bunjirtluk Jintaridth
• 08/04/2019 6:32 a.m.

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• Compiler: Donia Mühlematter
• 05/16/2018 2:45 p.m.

Il s’agit de barrières en feuilles de palmes ou de tôles ondulées en ciment (ou n’importe quel matériel inerte disponible dans la région) installées perpendiculairement à la direction dominante des vents s’ils sont unidirection-nels ou en carroyage pour des vents multidirectionnels.

• Compiler: Donia Mühlematter
• 10/31/2018 11:39 a.m.

The ICT2Scale project contributes to better land management by supplying smallholder farmers with targeted SMS messages on diverse agricultural practices. This enables them to optimize resources and adopt more sustainable methods, consequently improving livelihoods in remote areas.

• Compiler: Joren Verbist
• 01/12/2024 11:35 a.m.

Taungya agro-forestry system (citrus,maize and cassava) involves the planting of crops in young tree plantations. The food crops are normally planted with trees to provide shade for the young seedlings especially during the dry season; the crop litter acts as mulch and compost after decomposition thereby regulating soil temperature, and …

• Compiler: Jalia Namakula
• 06/13/2017 8:45 a.m.