SLM Database

Repair of ancient stone wall bench terraces, and of an associated irrigation and drainage system.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 06/08/2011 10:21 p.m.

Contour farming is a technology practiced in sloping areas in which hedgerows are established along the contours and other annual/cash crops are grown in the alleys between the hedges.

• Compiler: Philippine Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies
• 10/22/2015 3:18 a.m.

Rockwall terracing refers to the piling of stones or rocks along contour lines to reduce soil erosion in hilly areas.

• Compiler: Philippine Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies
• 09/22/2015 9:46 a.m.

Vetiver grass used as contour hedgerows in sloping agricultural land used for annual crops.

• Compiler: Philippine Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies
• 03/16/2011 1:27 p.m.

Piling of stones and rocks along the contour to control run-off and soil erosion. It is also about the creation of small basins by removing stones and using them as barriers.

• Compiler: Philippine Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies
• 03/16/2011 6:04 p.m.

Planting of economic crops/forages in strips along the contour to control soil loss through erosion.

• Compiler: Philippine Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies
• 06/14/2011 7:28 p.m.

Terraces supporting rainfed paddy rice on steep mountain slopes: these have been in existence for more than a thousand years.

• Compiler: Philippine Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies
• 03/16/2011 1:07 p.m.

Vegetable terracing is a technology practiced at which point terraces are established from the contours along mountain slope for crop production.

• Compiler: Philippine Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies
• 11/23/2015 8:51 a.m.

Within individual cropland plots, strips of land are marked out on the contour and left unploughed in order to form permanent, cross-slope barriers of naturally established grasses and herbs.

• Compiler: Philippine Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies
• 03/30/2011 2:50 p.m.

Trenches combined with living hedges or grass lines are slow-forming terraces to control soil erosion by changing the length of the slope and progressively reducing the slope gradient; he slope steepness decreases progressively by hydric and tillage erosion.

• Compiler: Desire Kagabo
• 12/13/2012 9:05 a.m.