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Sustainable pasture improvement in the arid and semiarid lands of Turkiye
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Sustainable pasture improvement in the arid and semiarid … [Turkey]

Natural pastures have insufficient capacity to produce forage in the semi-arid rangelands of Central Anatolian Region. Therefore, a project has been initiated to plant forage shrubs which are drought and salinity tolerant in order to rehabilitate these pasturelands.

  • Compiler: Bilgi Sarihan
Minimum Water Use
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Minimum Water Use [Turkey]

Instead of flow irrigation that requires high water consumption and causes excessive evaporation, water can be transported in pipes till crop's body and can be given slowly under controlled conditions. The approach is brought to farmers by state institutions as well as banks, and education for the scientific background, installation …

  • Compiler: Mehmet Zengin
Crop Production
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Crop Production [Turkey]

Adopting of the strip cropping-fallow-strip cropping system by farmers, with support from local SWC specialists and state agricultural organisations.

  • Compiler: Mehmet Zengin
Traditional Cisterns
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Traditional Cisterns [Turkey]

Cisterns are water collection structures which form part of a cultural heritage dating back some 2000 years. While cisterns are commonly used to store drinking water, in the sloping fields of Tarsus they serve as a form of water insurance structure for orchards during dry periods.

  • Compiler: Erhan Akca
Fodder Crop Production
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Fodder Crop Production [Turkey]

Production of fodder crops every year both for feeding livestock and increasing soil fertility.

  • Compiler: Faruk Ocakoglu
Drip irrigation
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Drip irrigation [Turkey]

Drip irrigation is a method designed for minimum use of water and labour for the optimum irrigation of plants in arid and semi-arid regions.

  • Compiler: Faruk Ocakoglu
Woven Wood Fences
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Woven Wood Fences [Turkey]

Wooden fences are an effective and relatively cheap way of conserving soil from water erosion by decreasing overland flow. They also increase crop yield by encouraging better infiltration.

  • Compiler: Faruk Ocakoglu
Strip farming
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Strip farming [Turkey]

Strip farming is a kind of an agriculture method that cereals are sowed as strips which are 50 m witdh (strip-fallow-strip). Strips are perpendicular to wind direction in dropugth areas.

  • Compiler: Mehmet Zengin