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El Huerto familiar es un espacio donde se produce hortalizas y otras especies vegetales de forma orgánica o agroecológica. La producción obtenida es para el autoconsumo familiar y el excedente es comercializado en mercados locales lo cual permite a los agricultores mantener ingresos económicos por la venta de sus productos …

• Compiler: Pablo Caza
• 11/17/2017 5:58 p.m.

It is an integrated land husbandary practice aimed at improving farm productivity of a household through the sustainable land resources development

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 02/26/2011 2:44 p.m.

Homestead development is a diverse, dynamic and interesting horticultural area; it appears as an agroforestry plot in a cultivated landscape surrounding it, and it is more productive than single cropping, since harvesting is continuous over a great portion of the growing season and beyond.

• Compiler: Sewalem Salele
• 10/25/2018 10:31 a.m.

Terra Preta raised garden beds are a combination of techniques from permaculture and the production of Terra Preta, an anthrosol. These garden beds, which were created with local resources, are highly fertile and enable the production of much higher yields than traditional techniques, while diminishing soil erosion.

• Compiler: Karl Harald Bier
• 12/14/2016 5:29 p.m.

Multilayer farming, also known as multi-tier farming, is a technique of intercropping crops of different heights, root and shoot patterns, and maturation times in small plots of land. This technique is cost-effective, easily adaptive, and participatory, providing a large number of food groups to farmers to improve their nutritional levels, …

• Compiler: Santosh Gupta
• 04/10/2023 3:38 a.m.

Multistory gardens refer to upright polythene sack filled with soil, in which food crops like vegetables, kales, carrots or onions grow on its sides.

• Compiler: Paul Kahiga
• 02/19/2015 8:48 a.m.

These are raised beds measuring one meter in width and 15 cm high used for planting onions after transplanting.

• Compiler: Paul Kahiga
• 02/19/2015 10:54 a.m.

The Technique of using decomposed rice straw in household gardening is an effective soil improvement practice carried out by the local people. The decomposed rice straw helps to improve soil moisture, provides organic matters to the soil, which a cost- effective soil amendment practice, and results finally in increased crop …

• Compiler: Bounthanom Bouahom
• 04/06/2017 4:48 a.m.

Effective micro-organism (EM) is a liquid concentrate which can be used as a pre planting treatment, for actively growing vegetables and helps to increase beneficial soil microorganisms and suppression of harmful ones.

• Compiler: kang phanvongsa
• 11/01/2017 7:23 a.m.

Making compost by burned rice bran to improve the soil fertility in vegetable home gardens.

• Compiler: Visay Visay
• 05/18/2017 5:02 a.m.