SLM Database

The inclusive, flood-resilient cluster village provides safe housing, food security and income generation for multiple families, including persons with disabilities, in a highly flood prone area of Gaibandha District in northern Bangladesh. The land was raised above flood level and is protected by deep rooted fruit trees to prevent soil ...

• Compiler: Subir Saha
• 03/23/2017 12:48 p.m.

Choi Jhal (Piper chaba), locally called morich lota is a creeping vine that is grown in homesteads of saline areas. It is adapted to soil salinity, grows under shade and is a very high value crop. It remains green throughout the year, reducing evapotranspiration from the soil and hence reduces ...

• Compiler: Jalal Uddin Md. Shoaib
• 05/09/2020 7:15 a.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 indigenous community in Bolipara village of the Thanchi upazlia (sub-district) of the Bandarban district are reducing or preventing land degradation through the cultivation and conservation of medicinal plants. This practice provides the raw material needed, by local traditional healers, to produce herbal medicines for the indigenous and tribal peoples.

• Compiler: Fazlay Arafat
• 12/26/2018 6:02 a.m.

Landform changes to dyke and ditch to introduce multiple crops.

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

Mound plantation with non-mangrove species to transform mono-culture plantations subsequently into more ecologically resilient, mixed species plantations and as well as to accelerate natural processes of accretion and land stabilization in coastal areas.

• Compiler: Fazlay Arafat
• 04/25/2019 12:58 p.m.

Balanced fertiliser use( Shusomo shar babohar) technology is absolutely suitable for reducing land degradation as well as increasing crop productivity,

• Compiler: Md Babul Hossain
• 06/09/2018 7:58 p.m.

Transforming an area of the denuded low hills of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) into an organic farm and tourism site

• Compiler: Jalal Uddin Md. Shoaib
• 04/17/2020 5:24 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.

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.