SLM Database

Afforestation is planting trees on previously non-forested land. Trees hold the soil and reduce runoff, and thus prevent erosion of the most fertile layers. It is an effective way to rehabilitate degraded lands, being a nature-based solution which addresses flood and soil erosion impacts.

• Compiler: Brigitta Szabó
• 06/22/2021 11:33 a.m.

All machinery traffic uses the same lane network within the field to reduce the total compacted area, to improve connections, and to optimise overlapping of following runs resulting in more efficient use of labour and inputs. Risks from environmental pollution are also reduced.

• Compiler: Brigitta Szabó
• 03/29/2022 4:12 p.m.

No-till agriculture replaces conventional soil tillage in order to reduce costs and labour - and to provide a mulch layer on the soil surface from the residues of the previous crop: this protects the soil surface and its ecology.

• Compiler: Brigitta Szabó
• 03/29/2022 4:11 p.m.

Vegetative riparian buffers are strips of trees, bushes and grass alongside surface water bodies such as streams or ponds. Their main function is to provide a natural buffer strip to filter out nutrient and sediment transported from agricultural fields and prevent it reaching the water bodies - as well as …

• Compiler: Brigitta Szabó
• 03/29/2022 4:13 p.m.

Accumulating coarse woody debris in stream beds reduces flow velocity and levels of flood peaks. As a consequence the speed and energy of water flow is reduced, allowing greater deposition of sediments. In addition the technology has ecological advantages.

• Compiler: Brigitta Szabó
• 03/29/2022 4:10 p.m.

The aim of conservation tillage is to reduce the soil disturbance. It decreases decomposition of organic matter, enhances cycling of nutrients, soil structure and increases water infiltration.

• Compiler: Brigitta Toth
• 08/07/2017 12:03 p.m.

Non inversion, conservation (soil and water protective) tillage.

• Compiler: Ádám Kertész
• 06/02/2011 4:09 p.m.

Farmyard manure is a decomposed mixture of cattle dung, urine with bedding material and fodder residues. After rotting the farmyard manure it is incorporated into the ground to increase soil fertility.

• Compiler: Brigitta Toth
• 08/06/2017 8:46 p.m.

Conventional (contour-line and ploughing) tillage

• Compiler: Ádám Kertész
• 06/02/2011 4:59 p.m.