SLM Database

Biological charcoal, or biochar, is porous charcoal obtained from biomass. Biochar as a soil amendment helps improve soil fertility as well as sequestering carbon in the soil.

• Compiler: Bunjirtluk Jintaridth
• 08/04/2019 6:32 a.m.

Growing sunn hemp in rice paddy fields as a green manure increases organic matter, and generally improves and nourishes the soil.

• Compiler: Bunjirtluk Jintaridth
• 02/10/2019 8:01 a.m.

"Bo Bao Kanomkrok" is a storage pond excavated as a source of water for agricultural purposes. It is shaped in the form of a rectangle to store water in the rainy season and thus to be a source of water in the dry season.

• Compiler: Bunjirtluk Jintaridth
• 10/18/2018 12:08 p.m.

Acid soils are problematic, and the use of alkaline materials such as marl - agricultural lime that is excavated - helps to reduce the acidity and make the soil more productive.

• Compiler: Bunjirtluk Jintaridth
• 01/12/2019 8:26 a.m.

Organic vegetable cultivation on the highland area of the northern region of Thailand has been encouraged by local officers in order to produce safe food on degraded land through building up soil fertility and soil organic matter.

• Compiler: Pitayakon Limtong
• 12/21/2018 11:09 a.m.

Acacia ampliceps is a very salt-tolerant species that can grow well in severely salt-affected areas. Land leveling with ditches and dikes is needed, and they are planted along an east-west direction. The technology is very well accepted by land users.

• Compiler: Chakkaphan Phaosrakhu
• 10/29/2018 10:23 a.m.

Allocating and managing small-scale farm areas to make them suitable for agricultural production under the highest levels of integration and efficiency.

• Compiler: Prapa Taranet
• 10/28/2018 10:09 a.m.

Planting a halophyte - Dixie grass (Sporobolus verginicus) - aims to increase the area of land usable by farmers and to prevent expansion of severely saline soils. Dixie grass can be utilised as cattle feed. The Land Development Department has been involved in developing and disseminating this technology.

• Compiler: Kamontip Sasithorn
• 10/30/2018 2:54 a.m.

Cut-off drain is a drainage ditch dug to quickly drain water out of sloping agricultural land.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 03/06/2011 6:08 p.m.

A conservation cropping system utilizing vegetative method for controlling erosion

• Compiler: Samran Sombatpanit
• 03/06/2011 6:59 p.m.