Resources Tagged: Hill Farming

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  1. Contour Cultivation and Live Barriers for Small-Scale Farmers

    2024-01-01 Many smallholder farmers live in areas with hilly or mountainous terrain. Soil erosion is a major issue in growing crops on steep slopes. When we see contoured plantings across slopes, we know that someone cares about erosion and is doing something about it. The curves are aesthetic, but what do...
    Contour Farming Hill farming A-Frame Level

  2. Agricultural Growth and Sustainability: Perspectives and Experiences from the Himalayas

    1992-01-01 26 pages, tables MFS Series, no. 25
    Hill farming South Asia Himalayan region Sustainable Agricu...

  3. FM 1996 ILEIA Newsletter Vol 12 #1

    1996-04-19 Experiences from the Andes and the Himalayas combined Lameo - Boliva soil conservation Irrigation through reservoirs in Bolivia Burning in hillsides farming in Colombia Diversity in mountain agriculture in northern India Indigenous knowledge re-valued Livestock and soil fertility
    Soil Conservation Soil Fertility Irrigation Andes Himalayan region Livestock Colombia Hill farming Mountainous Region India Indigenous Practices Irrigation Management

  4. The Human Farm: A Tale of Changing Lives and Changing Lands

    1994-01-01 In The Human Farm: A Tale of Changing Lives and Changing Lands, Katie Smith presents an unforgettable combination of human drama, spiritual principes, and pragmatic accomplishment. In learning how to renew their fields to provide themselves with yearly harvest, Honduran peasants also learn...
    Granja Loma Linda ... Training Guide Honduras Soil Conservation Hill farming

  5. Fragile lands: A theme paper on problems, issues, and approaches for development of humid tropical lowlands and steep slopes in the Latin American region

    1984-06-01 Prepared under contract for U.S. Agency for International Development, Wash. DC 98 pages, tables. Notebook format
    Hill farming Agriculture-Latin ...

  6. Sustainable tropical agriculture: introduction to agroforestry hillside farming

    Compiled by ECHO, this covers the topics of agroforestry with information on making an a-frame level, contour farming, alley cropping, SALT system, and general information on farming hilly land. no page count, illustrations, photos
    Agroforestry-Tropics Hill farming

  7. Development of Sloping Agricultural Land Technology in the Philippines

    1995-06-01 This booklet contains information on the development of sloping agricultural land technology (SALT) in the Philippines for crop based agriculture and sustainable livestock production. 21 pages, illustrated
    Philippines Hill farming Soil Conservation

  8. Hill Irrigation: Water and Development in Mountain Agriculture

    1995-12-01 Mountain agriculture has attracted attention both for its complex adaptation to particular circumstances, and for its marginality and instability in a changing world. Irrigation plays a range of roles in mountain farming systems and their dynamics or change. Hill Irrigation examines the...
    Irrigation Farming Hill farming SALT Sloping Agricultur... Irrigation Systems Irrigation Management

  9. A Handbook on Tropical Vegetable Production Flatland and Hillside

    1988-01-01 A good practical guide for the vegetable production student. A breakthrough in documentation of proven methods in flatland and hillside cultivation of tropical vegetables. Designed especially for today's progressive farmer.
    Tropical Vegetables Truck farming Hill farming

  10. Some Conceptual Issues of Livestock Farming in the Mountains

    1990-01-01 This paper first introduces the major characteristics of mountain areas and their operational implications. These characteristics called mountain specificities here, include inaccessibility, fragility, marginality, diversity, niche, and people's adaptation mechanisms in these habitats. The...
    Livestock Nepal Hill farming