SLM Database

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.

Le méteil est une association de céréales et légumineuses avec des proportions précises, utilisé pour l'alimentation de bétail et la réhabilitation du sol.

• Compiler: Wafa Saidi
• 02/27/2023 8:35 a.m.

Les cordons en pierres sèches sont des techniques de restructuration des sols basées sur un travail de sous solage pour nettoyer les terres empierres et dégager un espace favorable au développement du couvert végétal.

• Compiler: Wafa Saidi
• 12/19/2022 2:44 p.m.

The irrigation fertilizer system is an innovation designed to distribute manure and water in a banana plantation. A kraal (livestock zero grazing shed) with a cow dung reservior, set up uphill and connected with pipes to deliver diluted cow dug to a banana plantation downslope. This reduces the labor required …

• Compiler: Aine Amon
• 01/31/2018 7:15 a.m.

Collected poultry wastes are applied on a planted fruit garden growing mangoes, oranges, jack-fruits, pawpaw, lemon and vegetables such as green peas, tomatoes, cabbages and plantations of pine and eucalyptus for soil fertility improvement and increased production.

• Compiler: betty adoch
• 05/02/2017 1:33 p.m.

Local rabbits are kept in a shade made of wood, iron sheet and wire mesh for manure production with the aim of obtaining animal manure for soil fertility improvement thus increasing vegetable and fruits production and household income.

• Compiler: betty adoch
• 07/01/2017 2:44 p.m.

Multi-purpose tree species such as Calliandra calothyrsus are planted on farmstead to improve pastures for soil fertility improvement and livestock production

• Compiler: Sunday Balla Amale
• 12/19/2017 1:34 p.m.

Indigenous Micro Organisms (IMO) are homemade microbe mixtures which foster rapid anaerobic digestion of waste to create and maintain a healthy deep bed litter flooring leaving behind a fertilizer rich material whilst ensure no smells or flies. The microbe mixtures are produced by fermenting natural plants with sugar.

• Compiler: JOSELINE KASHAGAMA
• 01/31/2018 8:32 a.m.

Barley fodder technology is a livestock feed that grows under a hydroponic system. This green feed is highly palatable, rich in protein and energy yet cost-effective. It takes few days to maturity (5-6 days) and can be grown in a smaller area. One kilogram of barley seeds can yield up …

• Compiler: Sarah Babirye
• 03/22/2018 10:29 a.m.

Elephant grass (Pennisteum purpureum) and calliandra (Calliandra calothyrsus), are harvested and chopped using a chaff cutter to produce fodder for dairy cows. The chaff is then mixed with cotton seed cake, molasses and maize bran to improve palatability and nutrient quality for dairy cows. The cattle graze in paddocks during …

• Compiler: Aine Amon
• 01/31/2018 11:01 a.m.