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A farmer’s indigenous practice of growing sweet potato as a relay crop to its main crop of either rice or corn.

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• 03/26/2016 10:23 a.m.

Intensifying the irrigated rice production while at the same time reducing farm inputs including seeds, fertilizer, and water.

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• 03/26/2016 10:52 a.m.

Replacing the sand in the planting hole with soil for the proper nourishment of newly planted trees and for better moisture retention and storage.

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• 09/25/2013 11:48 a.m.

The Small Farm Rerservoir is an earth dam structure used to trap harvest and store rainfall and water runoff.

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• 06/13/2011 1:16 p.m.

Development of micro-catchment for soil and water conservation and for the provision of supplementary irrigation during the dry season.

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• 06/08/2011 10:49 p.m.

Sediment traps are structures built in the area which includes cascading catchment canal, silt traps and catch basin along perimeter, between pineapple fields and along diversion ditches to collect runoff during rains, preventing and minimizing the eroded soils cascading into natural bodies of water.

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• 09/01/2015 4:35 a.m.

Vegetable terracing is a technology practiced at which point terraces are established from the contours along mountain slope for crop production.

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• 11/23/2015 8:51 a.m.

Within individual cropland plots, strips of land are marked out on the contour and left unploughed in order to form permanent, cross-slope barriers of naturally established grasses and herbs.

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• 03/30/2011 2:50 p.m.