SLM Database

Plastic tanks of 50 to 100 liters of water with taps are placed on high platforms. Perforated plastic tubes allow water to flow and drip irrigate vegetable patches. Home gardening, once established can be carried out throughout the year.

• Compiler: betty adoch
• 06/08/2017 1:04 p.m.

Trenches commonly referred to as contour trenches and running perpendicular to a slope increase water infiltration and reduce soil erosion as a way of conserving soil.

• Compiler: Sarah Babirye
• 12/06/2017 1:40 p.m.

A gutter system constructed on the farmer’s house-roof collects rainwater and directs it into a constructed reservoir raised off the ground with interior walls lined with water-proof tarpaulin. The reservoir has a maximum capacity of 8,000 liters of water; clean enough for irrigation, livestock and domestic use during seasons of …

• Compiler: Aine Amon
• 12/05/2017 1:08 p.m.

A contour trench and pit are an excavated ditch/pit along a uniform level across the slope of land in the top portion of catchment to trap runoff water.

• Compiler: JOSELINE KASHAGAMA
• 03/22/2018 11:26 a.m.

Weeds and crop residues laid in bands across the slope of annual crop fields to conserve soil and water, and to incorporate organic matter into the soil after decomposition.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 02/24/2011 1:50 p.m.

CF basins are constructed in the field to act as water storage containers. Water is conserved within the basins and plants can survive with this conserved water during periods of little rainfall and dry spells.

• Compiler: Sunday Balla Amale
• 12/06/2017 8:50 a.m.

Trenches commonly referred to as “fanny juu, fanya chini” increase water infiltration and reduce soil erosion.

• Compiler: Kamugisha Rick Nelson
• 05/17/2017 11:43 a.m.

Waterhole is excavated for abstracting underground water for watering livestock as well as irrigating crops during the dry season.

• Compiler: Kamugisha Rick Nelson
• 05/18/2017 1:21 p.m.

Rain-water from all corrugated iron roof structures in one compound is harvested and stored in underground tanks.

• Compiler: Wilson Bamwerinde
• 12/09/2013 11:54 a.m.

Dry banana leaves are spread in the soil for growing banana plantation for improving soil fertility and moisture content retention.

• Compiler: Kamugisha Rick Nelson
• 06/05/2017 11:18 a.m.