SLM Database

A waterway is an artficial drainage channel constructed along the steepest slope to receive runoff from cutoff drains and graded structures and drain to the natural waterway safely.

• Compiler: Berhanu Fentaw
• 06/02/2011 3:30 p.m.

Soil bund and Fanya Juu constructed along the contour lines in microwatershed to conserve soil moisture and control erosion.

• Compiler: Daniel Danano
• 06/02/2011 2:35 p.m.

It is a structural measure with an embankment of soil or stones or soil and stones, constructed along the contour and stablized with vegetative measures (grass and fodder trees).

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 05/30/2011 8:29 p.m.

Activities that help maintain the productive potentials of soils through prevention and reduction of erosion, enhancing of rehabilitation rate by practicing measures such as microbasins, trench, eyebrow terrace, terraces, pitting and plantation of trees.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 05/30/2011 3:51 p.m.

It is a structural measure constructed across the slope to control erosion and increase soil moisture.

• Compiler: Daniel Danano
• 05/30/2011 2:16 p.m.

level bund with double stone walls with soil and grass to stabilize the structure

• Compiler: Sabina Erny
• 05/29/2011 10:59 p.m.

Rehabilitation of communal grazing lands, through planting of improved grass and fodder trees and land subdivision, to improve fodder and consequently livestock production.

• Compiler: Daniel Danano
• 05/29/2011 9:18 p.m.

A hillside terrace is a structure along the contour, where a strip of land is levelled for tree planting.

• Compiler: Hans Hurni
• 02/13/2011 12:20 p.m.

Multiple cropping is an agronomic practice of growing two or more crops on the same land simultaneously in a given growing season

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 02/14/2011 2:28 p.m.

It is an allignment of stones embankment at the lower/downslope of the trench dug to form earth embankment following a contour.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 02/24/2011 9:38 a.m.