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Cut-off drain is a drainage ditch dug to quickly drain water out of sloping agricultural land.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 03/06/2011 6:08 p.m.

Terraces with narrow beds, used for growing tea, coffee, and horticultural crops on hillsides cleared from forests.

• Compiler: Samran Sombatpanit
• 03/06/2011 1:53 p.m.

Collecting rainwater in artificial trenches on hill and mountain slopes for the accumulation of water in the soil around the roots of trees planted in the trenches

• Compiler: Nikolay Zverev
• 02/02/2012 6:42 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.

This is a system of integrated runoff water and drainage management that allows cultivation in a swampy valley bottom.

• Compiler: Alex Lwakuba
• 02/24/2011 1:27 p.m.

A percolation pit is an excavation in the ground in the pathway of water runoff to intercept the flow of the water and thereby reduce erosion and destruction of crops, settlements and other infrastructure downstream

• Compiler: Philip Tibenderana
• 10/07/2016 11:16 a.m.

Run off water from a hill is harnessed and concentrated in a banana plantation using diversion and retention ditches respectively.

• Compiler: Alex Lwakuba
• 02/24/2011 11:05 a.m.

Non-inversion and ‘shallow’ ploughing cultivation strategies on an organic farm, where the use of herbicides for weed control is prohibited.

• Compiler: Sabine Reinsch
• 06/10/2019 11:52 a.m.

The stone existed in the region are used for building diversion constructions to raise the level of wadi bed to the level of the inlet of the cultivated land that need to be irrigated from water harvesting in addition to distribution channels in the fields

• Compiler: ahmed algalal
• 05/13/2013 12:38 p.m.

Building terraces in steep areas for the purpose of reducing the slope, water harvesting and soil moisture conservation.

• Compiler: ahmed algalal
• 04/30/2013 12:13 p.m.