Cultivation
Dead-Level Contours
This Brief describes the use of contours and shows how to construct the Manama in-field rainwater harvesting storage facility.
Douglas Gumbo for Practical Action Southern Africa, 2005, 4 pages
This Brief describes the use of contours and shows how to construct the Manama in-field rainwater harvesting storage facility.
Douglas Gumbo for Practical Action Southern Africa, 2005, 4 pages
Floating Gardens in Bangladesh
A floating garden is built using aquatic weeds as a base on which vegetables can be grown.
Neil Noble for Practical Action, 2006, 4 pages
A floating garden is built using aquatic weeds as a base on which vegetables can be grown.
Neil Noble for Practical Action, 2006, 4 pages
Hibiscus Farmingزراعة و حصاد محصول الكركدي
The plant’s importance as a cash crop is promising for small-scale farmers: seeds are cheap, easy to sew, and will grow in various types of soil.
ENGLISH - عربي
Practical Action Sudan, 2004, 15 pages
The plant’s importance as a cash crop is promising for small-scale farmers: seeds are cheap, easy to sew, and will grow in various types of soil.
ENGLISH - عربي
Practical Action Sudan, 2004, 15 pages
Mushroom Growing
Developing commercial cultivation of mushrooms is growing throughout Africa. This brief focuses on this practice in Zimbabwe.
Neil Noble for Practical Action, 2007, 9 pages
Developing commercial cultivation of mushrooms is growing throughout Africa. This brief focuses on this practice in Zimbabwe.
Neil Noble for Practical Action, 2007, 9 pages
Oregano cultivation
Oregano has very high tolerance in terms of altitude and temperature. It is suitable in any soil that is not saline.
Translated by Edward Stevens for Practical Action, 2008, 5 pages.
Passion fruit cultivation
Passion fruit is an rustic, adaptable crop used in foodstuffs and medicine at both small- and indrustrial scales.
Practical Action Peru, Translated by Edward Stevens, 2008, 2 pages
The 'A' frame
The A-frame is used in the construction of dead-level contours and other applications where level ground is required.
Practical Action, 2005, 3 pages
The A-frame is used in the construction of dead-level contours and other applications where level ground is required.
Practical Action, 2005, 3 pages
The Donkey Plough
This Technical Brief covers the construction of the donkey plough, developed for use in Sudan.
Neil Noble for Practical Action, 2004, 3 pages
This Technical Brief covers the construction of the donkey plough, developed for use in Sudan.
Neil Noble for Practical Action, 2004, 3 pages
The Kebkabiya Plough
This plough has been used with great success in Kebkabiya, Sudan. Here is a highly visual guide to its use.
Sidig M. & Abderazig, O. for Practical Action Sudan, 1998, 12 pages
This plough has been used with great success in Kebkabiya, Sudan. Here is a highly visual guide to its use.
Sidig M. & Abderazig, O. for Practical Action Sudan, 1998, 12 pages
The Kebkabiya Plough - Engineering Drawing
The donkey plough is a lightweight plough suitable for conditions in Sudan.
Kamal Khalifa for Practical Action Sudan, Jan 2008, 1 page
The donkey plough is a lightweight plough suitable for conditions in Sudan.
Kamal Khalifa for Practical Action Sudan, Jan 2008, 1 page
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