SLM Database

V-ahaped sturcture on contour line in order to check sheet/reel erosion and for moisture retension.

• Compiler: Biranchi Mohapatra
• 06/03/2011 8:37 p.m.

Transforming a monocrop coconut farm into a resilient food forest can sustainably enhance soil health, biodiversity and productivity while reducing labour and external input requirements. This demonstrates the potential to increase yields and provide long-term economic and ecological stability for farmers.

• Compiler: Praveena Sridhar
• 10/30/2024 11:31 a.m.

Community-based soil rehabilitation by eradicating the invasive plant Lantana Camara using the 'cut rootstock' method (refer to WOCAT technology 6660) is an effective, cost-efficient, and sustainable approach to restoring grasslands on common lands in the Mandla District of Madhya Pradesh. The three-tier institutional structure used in this eradication process involved …

• Compiler: Santosh Gupta
• 03/15/2023 6:11 p.m.

Multilayer farming, also known as multi-tier farming, is a technique of intercropping crops of different heights, root and shoot patterns, and maturation times in small plots of land. This technique is cost-effective, easily adaptive, and participatory, providing a large number of food groups to farmers to improve their nutritional levels, …

• Compiler: Santosh Gupta
• 04/10/2023 3:38 a.m.

The use of city compost is a sustainable solution for addressing the problem of waste management and soil degradation. Under this technology, urban municipal waste is composted and used as organic fertiliser in agriculture. This relieves the cities’ waste management, enhances rural soils and in turn improves farm productivity.

• Compiler: Santosh Gupta
• 04/17/2023 11:03 a.m.