SLM Database

Crop rotation is a common practice used by farmers in northern Uganda. It involves the growing a series of different types of crops in the same field in sequential seasons to improve soil fertility, nutrition, income and food security .

• Compiler: betty adoch
• 05/31/2017 2:36 p.m.

The irrigation fertilizer system is an innovation designed to distribute manure and water in a banana plantation. A kraal (livestock zero grazing shed) with a cow dung reservior, set up uphill and connected with pipes to deliver diluted cow dug to a banana plantation downslope. This reduces the labor required ...

• Compiler: Aine Amon
• 01/31/2018 7:15 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.

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.

Fish farming supported by availability of water is considered as profitable enterprise in Northern Uganda. Farmers use areas with either high water tables or swamps to locate the ground water recharged fish ponds and water for fish production and crop irrigation during the dry season.

• Compiler: Kamugisha Rick Nelson
• 06/08/2017 12:33 p.m.

Pigs are kept to produce manure used for soil fertility improvement and household income.

• Compiler: Kamugisha Rick Nelson
• 06/10/2017 10:46 a.m.

Oranges (Citrus sinensis) and Mangoes (Mangifera indicate) integrated with beans are planted together in the same field to increase production and household income.

• Compiler: Kamugisha Rick Nelson
• 06/07/2017 2:49 p.m.

Species of Mangoes and Oranges planted for income and food security.

• Compiler: Kamugisha Rick Nelson
• 06/11/2017 10:13 a.m.

Fruit trees of Mangoes (Mangifera indica) and Oranges (Citrus sinensis) are grown on degraded land to improve soil fertility through deep soil nutrient mining and litter of leaves.

• Compiler: Kamugisha Rick Nelson
• 06/11/2017 1:12 p.m.

CF basins are constructed in the field to act as water storage containers. Water is conserved within the basins and plants can survive with this conserved water during periods of little rainfall and dry spells.

• Compiler: Sunday Balla Amale
• 12/06/2017 8:50 a.m.