SLM Database

Contour trenches for the cultivation of almond trees, and contour strips for cereals are types of rainwater harvesting structures. They are designed to capture runoff, reduce erosion, and enhance soil moisture—thereby improving land productivity and supporting climate-resilient agriculture in lowland dry areas.

• Compiler: Joren Verbist
• 05/29/2025 4:10 p.m.

Gradoni orchard terraces are intermittent strips of contour-based structures separated by catchments of about 10 metres. They are designed to capture and hold rainwater, reduce erosion, and improve conditions for the cultivation (in this case) of almond and pistachio trees, thereby enhancing land productivity and climate resilience in dryland areas.

• Compiler: Joren Verbist
• 05/23/2025 1:40 p.m.

A resource-saving irrigation technology for row crops using shortened furrows, which enables significant savings of irrigation water and improves the efficiency of mineral fertilizer use on irrigated land.

• Compiler: Oyture Anarbekov
• 02/05/2014 8:38 a.m.

The technology of cultivating agricultural crops with the use of hydrogels ensures optimal soil moisture and plant nutrition by accumulating soil water and nutrients and gradually releasing them to the plants, thereby increasing crop yields and improving harvest quality.

• Compiler: Rustam Ibragimov
• 03/28/2022 12:51 p.m.

The use of cold tolerant chickpeas, sown in autumn, significantly benefits farmers by realizing higher profits thanks to smaller amounts of fertilizers required, increased yields, and a better market price.

• Compiler: Joren Verbist
• 05/24/2021 2:16 p.m.

The cultivation of short duration mung bean varieties lead to higher farm-income and improved soil health in Central Asia

• Compiler: Joren Verbist
• 09/23/2021 2:57 p.m.

Strip seeding of desert drought-resistant plants on degraded pastures creates an improved and stable structure of pasture phytocoenoses composed of natural and cultivated forage plants, and increases forage potential of desert pastures.

• Compiler: Rustam Ibragimov
• 03/24/2022 12:22 p.m.