Resources Tagged: Salt

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  1. Sustainable Agriculture Book - Appendix 1 SALT

    2005-01-20 Sloping Agricultural Land Technology (SALT) has made steep worthless lands usable. This is a practice valuable to the tribal community. They are learning to stabilize topsoil with the proper selection of species. They can maintain their ancestral lands without having to destroy them through...
    SALT

  2. Make your own salt block for livestock

    2008-07-20 Bone mealhas another use. You can overcome mineral deficiencies in cattle by making your own cattle lick or mineral block, using bonemeal as the source of phosphorous.
    SALT Livestock

  3. How to Make Your Own Salt Licks and Urea Blocks

    1999-10-19 Salt licks can provide the minerals that are often lacking, such as phosphorus, sodium, calcium and magnesium. Salt licks can be purchased to improve production, but limited cash and/or proximity to a town or village may prohibit doing so regularly. It is possible, however, to make your own salt...
    Livestock Nutrition SALT

  4. SALT (Sloping Agricultural Land Technology) with emphasis on forage and animal production.

    2008-07-20 This method is designed to allow crops to be grown even onsteep hillsides with minimal erosion while at the same timeincreasing soil fertility and providing fodder for livestock.Rather than controlling erosion with rock terraces or ditches, SALT relies on rows of vegetation.
    SALT Erosion Control

  5. SAWBO - Postharvest Loss: Salt Testing for Grain Moisture Levels (3D)

    This animation explains a method to test if your grain has a low enough moisture level for you to store it. This technique utilizes salt to help determine the moisture level in your grain. Scientific Animations Without Borders (SAWBO) is a university based program. SAWBO transforms extension...
    Postharvest SALT Moisture SAWBO

  6. Working Together with Farmers to Understand and Build a More Sustainable Sloping Land Corn and Rice Farming System

    2017-10-03 In this workshop, I will describe and diagram the common sloping land corn and rice farming system. I will then identify leverage points within the system and how development workers can work with farmers to make these systems more sustainable.
    SALT Maize Rice corn Asia

  7. SALT: Agroforestry Options for Upland Farming in the Humid Tropics

    2017-10-05 The Sloping Agriculture Land Technologies (SALT) were developed in the Philippines more than 30 years ago. They were developed with local farmers incorporating some key principles for farming the uplands in the humid tropics such as soil erosion control, fertility management through use of plant...
    SALT Agroforestry Asia

  8. Growing Cassava on Sloping Land - Video

    Access Agriculture Training Video On sloping land, rainwater washes away the fertile soil and cassava yields will quickly decline. By reducing soil erosion and building up a healthy soil, you will continue to have a good cassava harvest for many years. Available languages Bambara English French...
    SALT Cassava Cross-Slope Barriers Sustainable Land M... Soil Fertility AccessAgriculture

  9. Grass Strips Against Soil Erosion - Video

    Access Agriculture Training Video Contour hedgerows slow the speed of water coming down the slope and allow the water to infiltrate. They also allow the washed away soil and nutrients to settle out above the hedgerows. You can plant many different grasses, depending on what you need and what is...
    SALT Soil Management Sustainable Land M... Cross-Slope Barriers Rainwater Harvesting AccessAgriculture Asia

  10. Sustainable Elimination of Iodine Deficiency

    2008-05-01 This report has three purposes. First, it reviews the global and national efforts to eliminate iodine deficiency disorders during the past two decades. And it shows how governments, the salt industry and communities, with UNICEF support, have made great progress in eliminating iodine deficiency...
    Iodine SALT