SLM Database

Allocating and managing small-scale farm areas to make them suitable for agricultural production under the highest levels of integration and efficiency.

• Compiler: Prapa Taranet
• 10/28/2018 10:09 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.

Different varieties of mangoes such as Banganapalle, Alphonso, Kesar, Haden, Bombay, Kent, Keitt, oranges such as Washington Navel, Valencies, Tangarine, jack fruits and avacados are grown for purposes of household income and soil fertility improvement.

• Compiler: betty adoch
• 05/19/2017 1:30 p.m.

Mixed Cropping of coffee (Coffea Canephora) , banana (Musa) and onions (Allium cepa) is a sustainable traditional land management practice that involves the growing of two or more crops (coffee, banana and onions) at the same time on the same field by smallholder farmers for increased production, food security and …

• Compiler: Babirye Irene
• 02/02/2018 3:41 p.m.

Sack gardening is a technology that consists of a series of sacks that are filled with manure, soil and small stones that enable water to drain, from the tops and sides of the sacks, often referred to as multi-stoney gardens to increase production.

• Compiler: Babirye Irene
• 03/22/2018 10:15 a.m.

Mushroom (agaricus bisporus) cultivation is one of the profitable technologies promoted by small and medium scale farmers in urban setting fetching good returns on investment within a period of 30 days with the aim of obtaining tremendous nutritional benefits, employment and additional income gained by both farmers and suppliers of …

• Compiler: Sarah Babirye
• 03/21/2018 2:23 p.m.

Compost manure production is a sustainable land management practice promoted by small scale farmers by using banana, cassava, sweet potato peelings, jack fruit residues and food left overs. The aim is to improve soil fertility, increase agricultural production and household income. The technology makes nutrients more readily available to plants …

• Compiler: Sarah Babirye
• 12/05/2017 1:14 p.m.

A vegetable garden (also known as a vegetable patch or vegetable plot) is a technology promoted by small and medium scale farmers in Western Uganda to grow vegetables and other plants namely spinach, egg plants, sukuma wiki, onions and tomatoes for human consumption and income usually established in backyards.

• Compiler: PRISCILLA VIVIAN KYOSABA
• 04/01/2018 8:16 p.m.

Home gardens provide low-income households with continuous food supply and increase the resilience of their livelihoods to climate change

• Compiler: Bernard Fungo
• 06/30/2017 2:19 p.m.

A fish pond for intensive commercial fish farming is constructed in the backyard of the farmer's home for easy management. The pond is lined with a tarpaulin interior and is connected to a water source for water supply during the seasons of water scarcitiy.

• Compiler: Aine Amon
• 02/09/2018 5:59 p.m.