SLM Database

Terraced orchard with alfalfa cultivation for fruit and fodder production and soil and water conservation.

• Compiler: Aqila Haidery
• 05/16/2014 1:14 p.m.

Recuperación de prácticas tradicionales de producción, como estrategia productiva con resiliencia en Yavi/Barrios

• Compiler: Florian Dieker
• 05/20/2015 5:09 p.m.

An ecologically sound and practical grazing management system, based on rotation and wet season resting.

• Compiler: Andrew Ash
• 09/27/2010 10:03 a.m.

The sorjon system is the cultivation of vegetables on raised beds. Ridges are about 60 to 90 cm high, which means crops are kept above the water, even during the wet season. The ditches between the ridges hold water for six to eight months per year and can be used …

• Compiler: Wolfgang Duifhuizen
• 10/03/2019 9:47 a.m.

Strip tillage wheat cultivation is a climate-smart technology to save water and improve soil health

• Compiler: Mutasim Billah
• 04/07/2019 9:16 a.m.

Traditional shifting cultivation is a rain-fed cultivation practice of the trible people of CHT (Chittagong Hill Tracts) for their subsistence, where natural vegetation is cleared off by slash-and-burn, to grow mixed annual crop for one year and then the land is left fallow for 3-5 years for natural regeneration.

• Compiler: Abdul Gafur
• 11/04/2010 1:46 p.m.

The use of crop rotation in dairy farms to provide fodder on a healthy sandy soil

• Compiler: Sabine Reinsch
• 09/12/2019 4:41 p.m.

Rotational livestock grazing is an integrated agriculture and livestock management system where livestock are grazed in the dry season, in a crop field, to feed on crop residues and/or weeds and where manure is used as an organic fertiliser for soil restoration purposes. While grazing, the animals feed on crop …

• Compiler: Gatien AGBOKOUN CHRISTOPHE
• 11/24/2022 1:30 a.m.

Mucuna (Mucuna pruriens) is an annual herbaceous legume used as a cover crop to restore soil fertility. Beyond its nitrogen-fixing properties, its dense foliage is a living mulch that helps replenish the soil's organic matter content, capturing rainwater, protecting the soil from erosion and keeping weeds under control.

• Compiler: Gatien AGBOKOUN CHRISTOPHE
• 03/12/2023 2:12 a.m.

Traditional soil fertility management refers to the practice of improving and maintaining soil fertility using organic amendments, specifically farmyard manure (FYM). Other organic materials and crop residues can be effectively utilized through process of decomposition, fermentation and pyrolysis to produce compost, bokashi and biochar respectively.

• Compiler: Karma Wangdi
• 07/06/2023 5:27 p.m.