SLM Database

Organic vegetable cultivation on the highland area of the northern region of Thailand has been encouraged by local officers in order to produce safe food on degraded land through building up soil fertility and soil organic matter.

• Compiler: Pitayakon Limtong
• 12/21/2018 11:09 a.m.

Meslin consists of a planting mix of cereals and legumes, formulated for both livestock feed and soil rehabilitation purposes.

• Compiler: Wafa Saidi
• 02/27/2023 8:35 a.m.

Low-input farming, facilitated by symbiotic microorganisms, helps sustain production while protecting the environment. In particular, inoculation with bacteria such as Rhizobium contributes to enhancing legume productivity and improving harvest quality.

• Compiler: Wafa Saidi
• 03/07/2023 6:59 p.m.

This technique is based on the principle of leaving the rangeland protected (by excluding grazing during 2-3 years) to allow the plant cover to recover.

• Compiler: Mongi Ben Zaied
• 03/03/2011 2:56 p.m.

L’agriculture de conservation est une technologie basée sur trois principes : la perturbation minimale du sol, la couverture permanente des sols et la diversification de cultures en rotations ou en séquences.

• Compiler: Donia Mühlematter
• 05/16/2018 7:48 p.m.

The improved variety of cassava known as Nafe14 is grown on a gentle slope. Animal traction was used to plough 43 acres of land. The land was initially used for growing soya beans. The cassava garden has some trenches dug across so to control flooding and soil erosion. By this …

• Compiler: betty adoch
• 05/31/2017 9:03 a.m.

Crop rotation is a common practice used by farmers in northern Uganda. It involves the growing a series of different types of crops in the same field in sequential seasons to improve soil fertility, nutrition, income and food security .

• Compiler: betty adoch
• 05/31/2017 2:36 p.m.

Lowlands have relatively high water tables and contain sufficient soil moisture to permit potatoes growing. Potatoes can grow in such areas compared to other staple crops like cassava.

• Compiler: Bernard Fungo
• 06/30/2017 2:44 p.m.

Cultivating leguminous crops in weed prone fields to help overgrow and kill the weeds

• Compiler: Sunday Balla Amale
• 12/06/2017 8:16 a.m.

Intercropping of maize with watermelon as a land optimization strategy

• Compiler: Bernard Fungo
• 06/29/2017 2:46 p.m.