SLM Database

Microcatchments and ponds are water harvesting measures used to collect stored and spread over an area to increase soil moisture and ground water level.

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• 06/02/2011 11:12 a.m.

Trashlines are constructed as a barrier of runoff, soil erosion using maize, sorghum and teff straw/stalk

• Compiler: Daniel Danano Dale
• 02/14/2011 1:46 p.m.

It is a technique which increases the productivity of grasslands per unit area through activities of soding and direct sawing of grass species.

• Compiler: Daniel Danano
• 11/08/2010 2:57 p.m.

Agronomic/structural measure using straw of maize and/or sorghum.

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• 02/13/2011 11:23 a.m.

It is a rectangular shaped soil embankment created in digging up sol and farming ridge and a basin for harvesting moisture.

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• 02/16/2011 10:29 a.m.

Construction of stones walls along the contour with trenches on the upper side of the structure while the upper part of the structure filled with soil and compacted.

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• 02/28/2011 7:51 p.m.

Closing the degraded land in order to provide enough time to regenerate by excluding from human and animal interferance.

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• 05/29/2011 8:07 p.m.

A terrace constructed along the contour with the embankment above the basin to prevent/control or reduce runoff.

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• 05/30/2011 8:55 p.m.

Closing the degraded land to let it to regenerate by excluding human and animal interference ans speed up the regeneration process by applying some SWC activities and undertake enrichment plantation.

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• 05/30/2011 4:44 p.m.

Earth embankment formed by digging a channel and pile the soil to form a ridge on which potato is planted.

• Compiler: Daniel Danano
• 05/30/2011 3:02 p.m.