SLM Database

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.

A portable wooden frame solar drier with polythene cover used for drying low moisture content crop produce such as chili and maize. The crop is placed inside the drier and takes 2-3 days to dry depending on the humidity and moisture content at harvest.

• Compiler: Sunday Balla Amale
• 12/20/2017 4:56 p.m.

Intensive zero-grazing of hybrid dairy Hybrid (Holstein Friesian) cattle to produce a constant high yield of milk all-year around.

• Compiler: Kamugisha Rick Nelson
• 05/02/2017 1:33 p.m.

Energy-saving stove is a hole dug in the floor of a hut or in the compound. It helps to reduce the quantity of firewood used for cooking by reducing heat loss and ensuring firewood burning for longer time.

• Compiler: Sunday Balla Amale
• 12/18/2017 11:12 a.m.

Use of the manual Treadle pump is a relatively cheap and effective way to ensure adequate soil moisture to ensure crop production throughout the year.

• Compiler: Bernard Fungo
• 06/07/2017 3:28 p.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.

Rotational grazing by improved goats variety enhances/ increases soil fertility, biodiversity and production of pastures and generates farmyard manure applied on cropland.

• Compiler: betty adoch
• 05/03/2017 7:26 a.m.

Fish farming supported by availability of water is considered as profitable enterprise in Northern Uganda. Farmers use areas with either high water tables or swamps to locate the ground water recharged fish ponds and water for fish production and crop irrigation during the dry season.

• Compiler: Kamugisha Rick Nelson
• 06/08/2017 12:33 p.m.

Laying grass (Poaceae) on perennial cropped land to reduce weeds, retain soil moisture and improve soil fertility.

• Compiler: Kamugisha Rick Nelson
• 06/11/2017 8:53 a.m.