This practice describes the use of hydroponic technology (soil-less plant propagation), in the form of green fodder, as an alternative method of sustainable feed production. It addresses decreased access to grazing land. This provides herders and their cooperatives with a low-cost, high quality, sustainable source of fodder which is available...

Las enfermedades de virus de las abejas se extienden por todo el mundo. Por lo general son infravaloradas por los apicultores: pueden causar graves pérdidas económicas si se asocian con otras enfermedades de las abejas. La Varroa destructor ha contribuido en gran medida a aumentar la incidencia de enfermedades virales....

Indoor housing is a convenient practice for raising livestock. If stalls are constructed in an appropriate way, they can fulfill several functions. This practice describes in detail how to construct a goat shed and a feeding trough. The feeding trough is constructed outside the stall, making it easier to clean...

Usually, there is a common practice to raise green manure as an intercrop in sugarcane and to incorporate it as mulch 45 to 50 days after sowing. The present practice, however, shows a modified method by introducing some practices based on close observations in a sugarcane production site in Tamil...

This practice focuses on facilitating the nursery germination and plantation of the “Malabar Neem” (Melia dubia), which is locally known as “Malaivembu”. The tree is found in forest plantations in India and is a fast growing tree crop with up to 20 m height. It produces greater bio-mass in a...

This practice describes how moringa plant can be propagated by air layering to promote vegetative propagation of trees and produce seedlings. Farmers nowadays might prefer propagation of moringa through air-layered cuttings rather than through seed propagation because through vegetative propagation the air layered seedlings represent the characteristics of selected mother...

La siguiente tecnología contiene características de limpiadores de malas hierbas y pulverizadores de mochila. Justifica cuándo su utilización puede ser conveniente en términos de sus ventajas y desventajas. Las ventajas incluyen ahorro de mano de obra, fortalecimiento de la resiliencia de los medios de vida, equipos, habilidades y costos. Las...

Fodder sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) is used for feeding animals in the drylands of India. The forage crop is sown in an intercropping system along with staple crops. The intercropping of the forage sorghum between other crops additionally improves the land-use efficiency, providing diversified yields within a specified area of...

Aquaponics is a symbiotic integration of two mature food production disciplines. Aquaculture (the science of fish farming) and hydroponics (the science of growing plants without soil) are combined within a closed recirculating system. This technology describes in detail how to build Bumina and Yumina special aquaponic type systems. Bumina system...

Este artículo incluye algunos ejemplos de uso de la tracción animal como fuente de energía para operaciones de post-cosecha. Detalla las características del equipo de tiro impulsado por animales, molienda motorizada de granos (molinos de placa, de rodillos y de martillos), extracción de aceite motorizada (prensa de tornillo sinfín, prensa...

Este conjunto de tecnologías integradas trata de conseguir un cultivo adicional durante la estación seca a través de la combinación de la recolección de agua de lluvia, uso controlado del agua, caballones siguiendo las líneas topográficas y mulching (cobertura del suelo con materia orgánica). Todas ellas en conjunto aumentan la...

Las lomas de resguardo ganadero son montículos o plataformas altas de tierra construidas a pulso y se utilizan para resguardar al ganado y salvaguardar productos agrícolas en tiempos de inundación. También permiten enfrentar tiempos de sequía, porque están rodeadas periféricamente por un canal con capacidad de almacenamiento de alrededor de...

Irrigation is crucial for agricultural activities, however, if not managed well, it entails high water losses and can be inefficient. The raised bed system is an improved surface irrigation strategy, which enhances productivity and makes the application of water in irrigated systems more efficient. It can be easily implemented by...

Este documento incluye aspectos de la agricultura de conservación, laboreo de conservación, aperos para laboreo de conservación incluyendo la plantadora manual (jab planter) y de los cultivos de cobertura. Todas esas tecnologías ahorran mano de obra.

La presente tecnología describe la construcción de un cobertizo semi-techado para llamas o alpacas y sus crías que permite proteger al ganado ante las inclemencias del tiempo, como heladas, lluvias, granizadas, nevadas y vientos, que provocan índices altos de mortandad en el ganado camélido.

Este artículo tiene algunas nociones básicas para el uso correcto de tracción animal, incluyendo enganche e implementos. También se explican las ventajas y desventajas de esta práctica, que incluyen ahorro de mano de obra, diversificación de los medios de vida, fortalecimiento de la resiliencia de los medios de vida, equipos,...

Rocrops is a smallholder farm established in 1990 in Trinidad. It is owned and managed by the husband and wife Ramgopaul and Beena Roop. The Rocrops farm is comprised of 1.29 ha. (3ac) of former degraded and acidic (3.5pH) sugar cane lands. The development of the farm has emphasized a...

In semi-arid West Africa, farmers and herders explain why and how trees and livestock play a crucial role in obtaining a productive soil and crop. In Niger and Ghana this is one of the strategies of integrated striga and soil fertility management that has a positive effect across agroclimatic zones....

Compost is more powerful than manure. What is less known is that the micro-organisms in compost attack striga seeds in the soil. Compost also decreases the amount of striga that will sprout, and reduces its negative effect on cereal crops. Let us look at how farmers in northeast Mali make...

Farmers in northern Nigeria are changing the way they intercrop their sorghum and millet with cowpea. By planting both crops at higher densities and in separate rows, and by applying some organic fertilizer, they harvest more and reduce damage by the parasitic weed striga. It is one of the strategies...