SLM Database

Cisterns are water collection structures which form part of a cultural heritage dating back some 2000 years. While cisterns are commonly used to store drinking water, in the sloping fields of Tarsus they serve as a form of water insurance structure for orchards during dry periods.

• Compiler: Erhan Akca
• 08/23/2022 10 a.m.

Production of fodder crops every year both for feeding livestock and increasing soil fertility.

• Compiler: Faruk Ocakoglu
• 02/28/2011 8:24 p.m.

Drip irrigation is a method designed for minimum use of water and labour for the optimum irrigation of plants in arid and semi-arid regions.

• Compiler: Faruk Ocakoglu
• 03/01/2011 9:45 a.m.

Wooden fences are an effective and relatively cheap way of conserving soil from water erosion by decreasing overland flow. They also increase crop yield by encouraging better infiltration.

• Compiler: Faruk Ocakoglu
• 02/26/2012 3:01 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.

Allowing livestocks to graze in pasturelands in a periodic and regular manner.

• Compiler: Mehmet Zengin
• 03/02/2011 7:13 p.m.

The stabilization of shifting sands by installing means of mechanical protection and planting shrubs around settlements in the Central Karakum

• Compiler: Nikolay Zverev
• 01/31/2012 9:14 a.m.

Collecting rainwater in artificial trenches on hill and mountain slopes for the accumulation of water in the soil around the roots of trees planted in the trenches

• Compiler: Nikolay Zverev
• 02/02/2012 6:42 a.m.