Keyword: tanzania
Manual box baling
Husbandry strategy for improving the sustainable utilization of forages to increase profitable milk production from cows and goats on smallho...
Diatomaceous Earths
Siliceous sedimentary mineral compound ground to obtain a whitish powder known as DE. Used to prevent insects infestations during seed storage.
Manual box baling
Husbandry strategy for improving the sustainable utilization of forages to increase profitable milk production from cows and goats on smallho...
Diatomaceous Earths
Siliceous sedimentary mineral compound ground to obtain a whitish powder known as DE. Used to prevent insects infestations during seed storage.
Weaver ants
Natural bio control agents against fruit pests that threaten the orchards such as fruit flies that can determine up to 80% of the fruit crop loss
Local plants employed to protect seeds against pests during storage
A number of different plants and trees are employed by sub-Saharan farmers to contrast insects infestation during seeds storage.
Rural seed fairs
A forum for farmers in various villages to buy and exchange seeds. Farmers, researchers, extension agents are brought together to share and exchang...
Maize selection
The careful choice of the best kernels to be stored as reproductive material for the next growing season
Vegetables nurseries
On-farm vegetable seedlings production
Trees nurseries
On farm tree seedlings production
Sustainable Seed - Multiplication Programme
Seed multiplication programme of Quality Declared Seed (QDS) involving groups of farmers in rural areas
Pitcher irrigation
A low-cost irrigation practice for vegetables adapted to drought prone environments in light textured soils with low water holding capacity
Organic pesticides
On-farm preparation of pesticides against pests on crops using local plants and trees
Vegetative gully healing
Technique of rehabilitation of bad gullied lands subject to heavily water erosion
Pattern farming
Land management for annual cropping originating from the Matengo pit, 'Ngoro' and a system used for growing grape vines.
Ngoro conservation system
Indigenous Soil and Water Conservation technique of the Matengo tribe that comprises a matrix of pits with surrounding ridges
Fanya juus and fanya chini
Indigenous soil and water conservation technique for steep slopes where ditches are dug along the contour line
Chololo pits
Indigenous micro-catchment planting pits suitable for heavy soils in sloping lands, developed and practiced in Dodoma Rural district, Tanzania
Kijungu valley bottoms
Valley bottom cultivation in mountain areas
Earthing up groundnuts
Agronomic practice to increase groundnuts yields