SLM Database

It is a technique which increases the productivity of grasslands per unit area through activities of soding and direct sawing of grass species.

• Compiler: Daniel Danano
• 11/08/2010 2:57 p.m.

Runoff/flood farming locally known as Korbe is a practice that involves diversion of water from different sources for growing vegetables, fruit trees and crops of high value on a land prepared known as Korbe.

• Compiler: Daniel Danano
• 09/24/2010 10:58 a.m.

Minimum tillage and direct planting are two conservation agriculture practices which basically consist of leaving crop residues on the soil surface without burning and subsequent planting through the mulch.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 09/11/2010 12:25 p.m.

Minimise soil disturbance to conserve soil moisture

• Compiler: Kithinji Mutunga
• 09/21/2010 3:18 p.m.

Ripping of soil using oxen-drawn implements, to improve water storage capacity and cropland productivity on small-scale farms.

• Compiler: Frederick I. Kihara
• 09/13/2010 5 p.m.

Terrace bund in association with a ditch, along the contour or on a gentle lateral gradient. Soil is thrown on the upper side of the ditch to form the bund, which is often stabilised by planting a fodder grass.

• Compiler: Kithinji Mutunga
• 10/19/2010 3:17 p.m.

Multipurpose Grevillea robusta trees planted along farm boundaries, on terrace risers and occasionally scattered in cropland.

• Compiler: Ceris A. Jones
• 10/27/2010 12:09 p.m.

Seed priming and microfertilization are two agronomic measures to increase soil fertility and increase crop harvests in semi-arid drylands.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 09/03/2010 9:14 a.m.

FMNR is the systematic regeneration of living and sprouting stumps of indigenous vegetation which used to be slashed and burned in traditional field preparation.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 10/29/2010 10:29 a.m.

Night corralling of cattle, sheep and goats on cropland during the dry season (November-April) replenishes soil fertility of agricultural land depleted by continuous cropping.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 11/05/2010 11:47 a.m.