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Stone wall check dams are built across a gully to collect alluvial soil and hinder further gully erosion.

• 编制者： Simon Bach
• 10/19/2011 4:57 p.m.

Stone faced embankment constructed along the contour to reduce soil loss

• 编制者： Unknown User
• 06/02/2011 12:27 p.m.

It is constructed along the contour to minimize soil erosion and prevent runoff damage from down stream fields.

• 编制者： Unknown User
• 06/02/2011 11:49 a.m.

Desho grass strip is a vegetative SWC measure used for stablizing the bund and provide fodder for animals.

• 编制者： Daniel Danano
• 05/30/2011 4:20 p.m.

It is a stone wall built across a gully at a given interval to trap moisture and sediment for crop production.

• 编制者： Daniel Danano
• 05/30/2011 1:25 p.m.

Vegetated graded soil bund is a soil conservation practice meant for cultivated lands and constructed by excavating graded channel on upper side and develop embankment on lower side which is planted with grass or shrub species in order to control soil erosion and drain excess runoff implemented through community mobilization.

• 编制者： Gizaw Desta Gessesse
• 05/12/2014 1:28 p.m.

Gully erosion management is the application of combination of practices to control excess or concentrated runoff generation in the gully upstream catchment area, divert excess runoff upstream of gully heads and control further development of gully using appropriate structural and vegetative measures in the head, bed and sides of the …

• 编制者： Gizaw Desta Gessesse
• 05/08/2014 10:06 a.m.

Closure of degraded land is made on land that has lost vegetation cover, has low soil fertility . To speed up the regeneration process applying some SWC activities and enrichment plantation will be necessary.

• 编制者： Unknown User
• 02/16/2011 11:41 a.m.

Stone walls placed downslope in an inclined manner having embankment of soil on upstream along the contour line having tieridge.

• 编制者： Unknown User
• 02/20/2011 4:51 p.m.

It is an integrated land husbandary practice aimed at improving farm productivity of a household through the sustainable land resources development

• 编制者： Unknown User
• 02/26/2011 2:44 p.m.