Crop Production
Type: Approaches
Creation: 2009-06-30 00:00 Updated: 2017-06-26 17:32
Compilers: Mehmet Zengin
Reviewers: Fabian Ottiger
Country/ region/ locations where the Approach has been applied
- Country: Türkiye
- Region/ State/ Province: Konya
- Further specification of location (e.g. municipality, town, etc.), if relevant: Karapınar
- Map: View Map
Description of the SLM Approach
Short description of the Approach
Adopting of the strip cropping-fallow-strip cropping system by farmers, with support from local SWC specialists and state agricultural organisations.
Detailed description of the Approach
Aims / objectives: To prevent soil erosion by wind and enhance crop yield. Basically altered fallow strips serve the retention of soil particles and minimize wind erosion. Plant strips in combination of cerela strips further decrease the wind speed.
Methods: Planning and implementation of strip technology. To sow cereals as strips of 50 m wide perpendicular to wind direction, behind it fallow again plant strip. So wind speed decrease and soil loss is minimized.
Stages of implementation: Every year this method is applied on October. Fallow and cereal strips are changed each year.
Role of stakeholders: The state agricultural organisations plan and implement the stable plant strips according prevalent wind speed. The local SWC specialists determine the direction and width of the strips according the crop types. They also supervise the implementation. Farmers are expected to implement the strips, following the direction and width of strips and to asess crop yield.
Photos of the Approach
- 📍 Apak village-Karapınar, Konya