SLM Database

La technologie de culture en couloir consiste à installer à intervalles réguliers des haies vives d'espèces légumineuses pérennes entre lesquelles les cultures saisonnières sont pratiquées.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 03/03/2011 9:52 p.m.

Jessour is an ancient runoff water harvesting technique widely practiced in the arid highlands

• Compiler: Mongi Ben Zaied
• 03/03/2011 8:02 p.m.

Strip farming is a kind of an agriculture method that cereals are sowed as strips which are 50 m witdh (strip-fallow-strip). Strips are perpendicular to wind direction in dropugth areas.

• Compiler: Mehmet Zengin
• 03/01/2011 10:16 a.m.

Farming techniques for growing arundo reeds in order to protect households from wind and dust and other economic purposes.

• Compiler: Nikolay Zverev
• 11/10/2011 6:16 a.m.

Trees of various sizes are integrated with crops such as coffee and/or banana, maize and beans such that each group of plants occupies a specific vertical position and competition for vertical space is minimized

• Compiler: Bernard Fungo
• 05/03/2017 7:48 a.m.

Using relatively cheap and locally available bamboo material to make bee hives is adaptable to local setting and reduces harvesting of large native trees

• Compiler: Bernard Fungo
• 06/17/2017 4:02 p.m.

A banana plantation established in an area surrounded by natural woodland vegetation is protected from excessive drought and winds, ensuring continuous production and increased income throughout the year

• Compiler: Bernard Fungo
• 06/17/2017 6:12 p.m.

Native tree scattered in the garden reduce wind speeds and lower chances of winds damaging crops

• Compiler: Bernard Fungo
• 06/29/2017 2:41 p.m.

Pine-based shelter belt is used to protect an orchard of mangoes against strong winds in order to prevent abscission of generative organs such as flower buds, flowers, small fruits and ripened fruits

• Compiler: Bernard Fungo
• 06/30/2017 2:14 p.m.

Leguminous, fast growing grevillea robusta (silk oak) planted as boundary lines provides shade to a pineapple cropland, increases soil organic matter, provides fuel wood for domestic use and timber for construction after 5-8 years.

• Compiler: betty adoch
• 06/07/2017 1:19 p.m.