SLM Database

Ficus natalensis based agroforestry system protects crops on windy hill slopes facing Lake Victoria and reduce runoff towards the meandering Kagera River Valley.

• Compiler: Wilson Bamwerinde
• 04/25/2013 3:12 p.m.

Improving soil fertility for both animal and perennial crops on flat area using mulching.

• Compiler: Wilson Bamwerinde
• 05/13/2013 8:47 a.m.

Digging trenches on a gentle slope in banana plantation in Rwerazi.

• Compiler: Wilson Bamwerinde
• 05/15/2013 3 p.m.

Fallowing in the cultivated land that is left unseeded for one or more growing seasons , to regain fertility for crops and its on a hill slope.

• Compiler: Wilson Bamwerinde
• 06/04/2013 10:27 a.m.

Rain-water from all corrugated iron roof structures in one compound is harvested and stored in underground tanks.

• Compiler: Wilson Bamwerinde
• 12/09/2013 11:54 a.m.

Intensive zero-grazing of hybrid dairy Hybrid (Holstein Friesian) cattle to produce a constant high yield of milk all-year around.

• Compiler: Kamugisha Rick Nelson
• 05/02/2017 1:33 p.m.

Energy-saving stove is a hole dug in the floor of a hut or in the compound. It helps to reduce the quantity of firewood used for cooking by reducing heat loss and ensuring firewood burning for longer time.

• Compiler: Sunday Balla Amale
• 12/18/2017 11:12 a.m.

Contour hedges of Calliandra planted on very steep slopes to combat soil erosion by decreasing surface runoff and increasing infiltration.

• Compiler: Wilson Bamwerinde
• 04/12/2013 10:41 a.m.

This is a system of integrated runoff water and drainage management that allows cultivation in a swampy valley bottom.

• Compiler: Alex Lwakuba
• 02/24/2011 1:27 p.m.

the SWC technology entails growing of markhamia lutea trees like food crops involving application of manure and mulch.

• Compiler: Alex Lwakuba
• 02/24/2011 11:34 a.m.