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    SLM04 Road Runoff Harvesting
    Road runoff harvesting can make a difference between drought and harvesting. Farmers have developed different techniques to cope with the climate change, using traditional methods and adopting some recent innovations. Road runoff systems can be divided into those that make use of water from a culvert, those who collect road runoff in small quantities, those […]
    Duration: 00:16:18
    Making a vermicompost bed
    Chemical fertilizer and pesticides used in the long term reduces yields and damages the soil because of incorrect use. Organic farming encourages farmers to increase yields while using available natural resources with reduced costs. A suitable area for a vermicompost is: A flat shady location near livestock is suitable for the compost container. Areas that […]
    Duration: 00:13:30
    Good microbes for plants and soil
    Farmers often spend a a lot of money on chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Although this may give a bigger harvest in the short term, applying these chemicals for long may harm the soil, environment and people since it kills living organisms in the soil. Healthy soil is important for plants to be healthy and microbes […]
    Duration: 00:07:27
    SLM07 Demi-lune
    Demi-lunes or semi circular bunds are a simple to make and a multi purpose water harvesting technique in West Africa since 1980. The concept was easy to understand and the farmers found it stimulating since it enabled them work in groups. A contour is first laid out with a water tube level then an A- […]
    Duration: 12:14:25
    SLM00 Introduction
    Sustainable land management secures productive base while simultaneously ensuring ecosystem resilience, safeguarding water supply and biodiversity. Sustainable land management captures carbon while offering opportunities for climate change. 1/3 of the green house gases responsible change in climate are from agriculture and land use change. Climate change is responsible for land degradation, in turn it simulates […]
    Duration: 00:06:58
    SLM10 Managed regeneration
    Land degradation brings about dust storms resulting in desertification. Tree planting can be used as way of reducing the effects of desertification. Planting trees schemes by using exotic species like Eucalyptus and pine do not do well in the dry areas. Trees that have been found to survive in the dry areas are the indigenous […]
    Duration: 00:07:35
    SLM01 Stone Lines
    Drought has lead to land degradation and hardship in various places. Even when it rains, water runs on the compacted surface carrying nutrients with it. Luckily, abandoned stones can be arranged in lines across the contour so as to slow down and spread the flow of water and used as a water harvesting system. The […]
    Duration: 00:13:22
    Vermiwash: An organic tonic for crop
    Vermiwash is an organic fertilizer that can make soil fertile again. It‘s a liquid that is collected after water passes through compost made by earthworms. It is rich in plant growth hormones, micronutrients and major nutrients like nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium. It is applied directly to plant leaves for faster growth and it is cheaper […]
    Duration: 00:13:35
    The clod breaker: a rolling harrow
    Continuous use of chemical fertilizers and weedicides damage soils and kills beneficial organisms. Machines also plough so deeply that fertile top soil goes down and infertile soil up, and compact the soil. As a result the soil loses it‘s structure, becomes hard making crops have well and have poor root penetration and don‘t germinate well. […]
    Duration: 00:09:56
    Hardening crabs in floating cages
    Crabs are sold to earn money locally and internationally but harvesting too soft crabs often get rejected by buyers because too soft crabs get damaged during transportation. Rejected crabs are usually bought and hardened in floating cages . Crabs change their shells as they grow and become soft, it takes 10-15 days for the shell […]
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