SLM Database

A low cost and an easy activity for protecting agricultural lands, gardens and public infrastructure from the damages of flash flood.

• Compiler: Aqila Haidery
• 10/12/2015 3:42 p.m.

The aim of this technology is to use the waterlogged soils, which remain under water during 6 to 7 months of a year, for vegetable seedlings. This is done through floating seed beds which are made of water hyacinths.

• Compiler: Naznin Imrana
• 04/08/2018 8:16 p.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.

Landform changes to dyke and ditch to introduce multiple crops.

• Compiler: Fazlay Arafat
• 11/26/2018 4:37 a.m.

Marshy land is transformed into a ridge and ditch area, where the ridges are wide enough for the nursery of diverse plants and seedlings and where after 6-8 years the yearly management practices the land got strong enough for various agricultural practices (i.e. guava, hog plum, plums and timber wood …

• Compiler: Rahatul Islam
• 12/28/2016 7:31 a.m.

Floating Garden is a traditional technology, practiced in the southern parts of Bangladesh locally called “Baira” or “Dhap”. The technology allows producing crops, vegetables and seedlings in areas where farming land is scarce and where the land is flodded or water logged for more than six months in a year.

• Compiler: Shamim Ahamed
• 10/09/2016 11:31 a.m.

Terrace consolidation is the merging of existing narrow bench terraces into larger terraces to enable farm mechanization, commercial farming and crop intensification. This technology is promoted as the existing terraces are generally narrow and this limits efficient operation and utilization of land and other resources.

• Compiler: Karma Wangdi
• 07/21/2023 1:08 p.m.

The Electric Fencing System in Bhutan serves as a non-lethal approach to safeguarding crops from wild animals, aligning with the principles of Gross National Happiness (GNH). GNH emphasizes values such as compassion, non-killing, and harmonious coexistence with nature and its elements.

• Compiler: Nima Dolma Tamang
• 07/08/2023 3:15 a.m.

Water purification using macrophytes to treat effluent from fish farming.

• Compiler: Marianna Siegmund-Schultze
• 08/24/2015 1:47 p.m.

La Protection des eaux internationales et l’habitat de la biodiversité des zones humides par la plantations arbres des agro-forestiers et à usages multiples dans les zones tampons et éducation des communautés à la gestion communautaire de ces dernières.

• Compiler: Salvator Ndabirorere
• 02/21/2013 4:04 p.m.