SLM Database

Digging ponds on farms to harvest rain water used for irrigating crops during drought provides a means for addressing a lack of water at the start of crop cultivation, both before the start of the rainy season and after the end of the rainy season. The main objective of this …

• Compiler: Nary Lay
• 06/24/2017 1:34 p.m.

Norias are water-pumping wheels made of bamboo which are used to irrigate paddy fields in order to increase the yield.

• Compiler: Christoph Kaufmann
• 10/27/2014 3:16 a.m.

Ponds are used at household level to raise fish as well as to irrigate vegetable gardens and rice seedlings

• Compiler: Christoph Kaufmann
• 10/16/2014 5:34 p.m.

Small-scale biogas systems fed with cow manure and water are implemented in order to supply the household with energy for cooking and lighting, as well as to produce fertilizer.

• Compiler: Christoph Kaufmann
• 10/27/2014 4:13 a.m.

Some points of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) technology, like the row transplanting of young seedlings and the use of compost are adapted and applied in Kampong Chhnang.

• Compiler: Christoph Kaufmann
• 10/16/2014 4:17 p.m.

Intercropping of mungbean between orange trees improves soil fertility and generates income before the orange trees bear fruit.

• Compiler: Navin Chea
• 08/22/2017 6:10 p.m.

Stylo grass (Stylosanthes guianensis) is grown under and between mango trees to be used as fodder for cattle.

• Compiler: Christoph Kaufmann
• 10/26/2014 8:35 p.m.

Dry compost is made from raw materials of cow manure, rice straw, rice husks, ash, leaves, waste from kitchen and water for application on paddy rice field to improveof soil quality and reduce chemical fertilizers.

• Compiler: Navin Chea
• 10/13/2017 4:11 a.m.

A nethouse is a structure that is enclosed by a nylon net (like mosquito nets) which protects vegetables from insects. Additionally, it prevents the vegetables from being damaged by rainfall wind and sunlight.

• Compiler: Nary Lay
• 08/18/2017 11:31 a.m.

Living fences of cashew, reinforced with bamboo and/or barbed wire, are used to keep the cattle off the garden or the rice seedbed.

• Compiler: Stefan Graf
• 10/27/2014 2:25 a.m.