Silvi Pasture
Type: Technologies
Creation: 2011-06-02 20:11 Updated: 2019-09-04 22:35
Compilers: Unknown User
Reviewers: Fabian Ottiger, Alexandra Gavilano
Country/ region/ locations where the Technology has been applied and which are covered by this assessment
- Country: India
- Region/ State/ Province: Madhya Pradesh
- Map: View Map
Description of the SLM Technology
Short description of the Technology
Regeneration of degraded hill side using structural, vegetative & managerial measures.
Detailed description of the Technology
Managerial Measures : awareness generation amongst community, users groups, area closure, cut & carry system; Structural Measures :- contour trenches, gully plugs, sunken structure for run off and erosion control; Vegetative Measures :- seeding of grasses and shrubs, plantation of dryland fruit & forest tree species, vegetative barriers across slopes & gullies.
Purpose of the Technology: Short term benefits :- increased fodder availability, increase in well water levels, increased soil moisture in foot hill crop lands; Long term benefits :- environmental regeneration leading to increased production from non-arable & surrounding arable lands.
Photos of the Technology
- 🗓 2002-03-10
- 📷 Vipin Sharma
- 🗓 2002-03-10
- 📷 Nand Kishore Upadhyay, India