SLM Database

Microcatchments and ponds are water harvesting measures used to collect stored and spread over an area to increase soil moisture and ground water level.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 06/02/2011 11:12 a.m.

Earth embankment formed by digging a channel and pile the soil to form a ridge on which potato is planted.

• Compiler: Daniel Danano
• 05/30/2011 3:02 p.m.

Runoff/flood farming locally known as Korbe is a practice that involves diversion of water from different sources for growing vegetables, fruit trees and crops of high value on a land prepared known as Korbe.

• Compiler: Daniel Danano
• 09/24/2010 10:58 a.m.

Rain water harvesting from greenhouses roofs.

• Compiler: Ioanna Panagea
• 03/16/2015 11:49 a.m.

Freshwater transport from local streams for irrigation purposes, in order to replace the traditional form of irrigation (by pumping saline groundwater from wells).

• Compiler: John Gkiougkis
• 05/11/2011 12:45 p.m.

Drip irrigation, also known as trickle irrigation is a method which minimizes the use of water and fertilizer by allowing water to drip slowly to the roots of plants, either onto the soil surface or directly onto the root zone, through a network of valves, pipes, tubing, and emitters.

• Compiler: Costas Kosmas
• 05/11/2011 4:44 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.

Supplemental Irrigation (SI) offers a solution for irregular rainfall, as it provides a limited amount of water to essentially rainfed crops consequently ensuring good plant growth. Furthermore, SI provides the opportunity for a more diverse production system such as a legume-cotton system in which chickpeas are cultivated as a winter …

• Compiler: Joren Verbist
• 10/13/2020 11:54 a.m.

Excavations in streambeds to provide temporary storage of runoff, increasing water yields from shallow wells for supplementary irrigation.

• Compiler: David Gandhi
• 06/02/2011 8:40 p.m.

Holistic demonstration includes integrated cultivation of Agri-Horti-Silvi technologies. Along with the Soil & water Conservation structures suitable to the site.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 06/03/2011 2:10 p.m.