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11 Dec 2019 | Water management

Contour Hedgerows of Nitrogen-fixing Plants and Shelter/Protection Belts to Reduce Runoff and Soil Loss

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These methods are both soil management and water management methods. They are described there.

11 Dec 2019 Livestock and fish
Livestock and Fish

Livestock are an integral component of the mixed farming system practiced by the great majority of farmers in ...

11 Dec 2019 Soil management
Sloping Agricultural Land Technology (SALT)

Sloping agricultural land technology (SALT), otherwise known as contour hedgerow intercropping (agroforestry) technology (CHIAT), is a system in which dense ...

11 Dec 2019 Community outreach
Distribution of material – seed and seedlings

Large amounts of seeds and seedlings of useful plants from ICIMOD’s plant nursery have been distributed to farmers and farmers ...

Alder (Utis) pollarding

Alder (Utis) Pollarding What is pollarding? #Pollarding is a pruning system involving the removal of the upper ...

11 Dec 2019 Income generation
Productive Trees – Fodder trees, Paulownia

Multipurpose trees Multipurpose trees play an important role in mountain farming. Products from a tree can include leaves, fruits, ...

Photovoltaic Electricity

Solar photovoltaic technology directly converts radiation from the sun into electricity using a physical process with no moving parts. It ...

11 Dec 2019 Water management
Drip Irrigation

Drip irrigation is a method that aims to provide only as much water to plants as they need, and only ...

Cover crops

Cover crops are essential for #soil health and varieties of white clover, peanut plants and alfa-alfa are demonstrated at our ...