SLM Database

Zero grazing by cut and carry feeding. The cows do not graze but are confined inside the stall, feed and water is provided for the animals.

• Compiler: Kamugisha Rick Nelson
• 06/10/2017 3:43 p.m.

The technology involves growing of Mangoes (Mangifera indica) and Oranges (Citrus sinensis) in the same field with the aim of conserving the environment, protecting soil from erosion, and generating income from the sale of fruits.

• Compiler: Kamugisha Rick Nelson
• 06/11/2017 7:33 a.m.

The granary is made of local material for food protection/preservation during bumper harvest

• Compiler: Bernard Fungo
• 06/30/2017 9:46 a.m.

Improved fruit tree nursery is a technology comprising of grafted mangoes, grafted citrus, eucalyptus and pines, established with the aim of improving household income and promotion of agro-forestry farming systems within surrounding communities to achieve environmental conservation.

• Compiler: Jalia Namakula
• 06/08/2017 12:37 p.m.

Lowlands have relatively high water tables and contain sufficient soil moisture to permit potatoes growing. Potatoes can grow in such areas compared to other staple crops like cassava.

• Compiler: Bernard Fungo
• 06/30/2017 2:44 p.m.

Trees of various sizes are integrated with crops such as coffee and/or banana, maize and beans such that each group of plants occupies a specific vertical position and competition for vertical space is minimized

• Compiler: Bernard Fungo
• 05/03/2017 7:48 a.m.

A minimum tillage technology where the garden is cleared by slashing and crops are planted without opening the land. Only the spot where the seed is planted is dug. The rest of the land is left undisturbed.

• Compiler: Sunday Balla Amale
• 12/19/2017 2:36 p.m.

Fire lines are established at the boundary between tree plantations to guard against wild forest fires that destroy the valuable tree species

• Compiler: Kamugisha Rick Nelson
• 05/03/2017 10:03 a.m.

Indigenous Micro Organisms (IMO) are homemade microbe mixtures which foster rapid anaerobic digestion of waste to create and maintain a healthy deep bed litter flooring leaving behind a fertilizer rich material whilst ensure no smells or flies. The microbe mixtures are produced by fermenting natural plants with sugar.

• Compiler: JOSELINE KASHAGAMA
• 01/31/2018 8:32 a.m.