SLM Database

Early irrigation of fields and pastures to retain soil mоisture during the dry season in Southern Kazakhstan (in the frame of CACILM).

• Compiler: Azhar Yeszhanova
• 01/27/2012 12:37 p.m.

Trashlines are lines of crop residuals that remain after harvesting, they are formed along the contours.

• Compiler: Paul Kahiga
• 06/20/2013 10:35 a.m.

Retention ditches, also called infiltration ditches, are larger ditches designed to catch and retain all incoming runoff for infiltration into the soil.

• Compiler: Paul Kahiga
• 02/19/2015 1:29 p.m.

Artificial grassed waterways are constructed waterways established for transportation of concentrated flow at safe velocities using adequate vegetation.

• Compiler: Paul Kahiga
• 06/20/2013 10:22 a.m.

Cleaning the spring and creating an animal watering point to reduce livestock trampling and erosion

• Compiler: Abdybek Asanaliev
• 04/10/2012 4:45 p.m.

Technique on the use of water from fishpond for dry season rice cultivation to increase yields

• Compiler: jimmy luangphithack
• 07/11/2017 9:30 a.m.

The Al Yakloum pond collects runoff from a local catchment and water is led through a channel system alongside a farm road. Sandy particles are captured in a sediment trap before runoff enters the pond. The pond provides water to approximately 5 ha of orchard - which is irrigated through …

• Compiler: Nicola D'Alberton
• 07/07/2022 10:13 a.m.

Water-spreading weirs slow the flow of water, spread it over a wider area, increase infiltration and reduce erosion.

• Compiler: Dieter Nill
• 09/25/2014 8:05 a.m.

The deepening of the channels has made it possible to control pond and lake recharge, optimise yields and crop growing, and increase the area under cultivation.

• Compiler: Dieter Nill
• 09/24/2014 5:03 p.m.

Small-scale dams are moderately-sized barriers built across valley bottoms to retain water from permanent watercourses or seasonal flows.

• Compiler: Dieter Nill
• 10/07/2014 2:24 p.m.