SLM Database

Integrating black spear grass (Heteropogon Contortus), elephant grass (Pennisetum Purpureum) and trenches into a Citrus orchard of Oranges (Citrus Sinensis) for soil and water erosion control.

• Compiler: Kamugisha Rick Nelson
• 06/12/2017 8:58 a.m.

Integrated crop-livestock production for improved soil fertility management. Local cows are tied to trees to facilitate manure collection.

• Compiler: Kamugisha Rick Nelson
• 06/05/2017 1:38 p.m.

Trenches commonly referred to as “fanny juu, fanya chini” increase water infiltration and reduce soil erosion.

• Compiler: Kamugisha Rick Nelson
• 05/17/2017 11:43 a.m.

Waterhole is excavated for abstracting underground water for watering livestock as well as irrigating crops during the dry season.

• Compiler: Kamugisha Rick Nelson
• 05/18/2017 1:21 p.m.

A portable wooden frame solar drier with polythene cover used for drying low moisture content crop produce such as chili and maize. The crop is placed inside the drier and takes 2-3 days to dry depending on the humidity and moisture content at harvest.

• Compiler: Sunday Balla Amale
• 12/20/2017 4:56 p.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.

Use of the manual Treadle pump is a relatively cheap and effective way to ensure adequate soil moisture to ensure crop production throughout the year.

• Compiler: Bernard Fungo
• 06/07/2017 3:28 p.m.

Dry banana leaves are spread in the soil for growing banana plantation for improving soil fertility and moisture content retention.

• Compiler: Kamugisha Rick Nelson
• 06/05/2017 11:18 a.m.

Rotational grazing by improved goats variety enhances/ increases soil fertility, biodiversity and production of pastures and generates farmyard manure applied on cropland.

• Compiler: betty adoch
• 05/03/2017 7:26 a.m.