Topic
Bunding
About: Bunding is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 37 publications have been published within this topic receiving 191 citations. The topic is also known as: bund wall.
Papers
1 Jan 2011
TL;DR: In this article, the impact of demonstrations or training of improved lowland rice management practices on its diffusion and rice yields was analyzed using the case of the JICA program in Eastern Uganda.
Abstract: This chapter attempts to provide better understanding of the impacts of demonstrations or training of improved lowland rice management practices on its diffusion and rice yields by using the case of the JICA program in Eastern Uganda. The most important finding of this study is that lowland rice yield can be extremely high in Uganda if basic production practices, such as bunding, leveling, and straight row planting, are adopted along with the adoption of modern rice varieties and the use of simple irrigation systems, even if chemical fertilizer is not applied. The major challenge is how to disseminate such a package of improved production practices to farmers. According to our analysis, the intensity of training participation is the key to the adoption of such practices. It was also found that training participation decreases as the distance from the demonstration plot increases.
41 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of terraced ground slope, terrace width, and slope position of the terraced area on grain and biomass yields was investigated. And the results indicated that indigenous stone bunding has a positive effect on sorghum yield.
Abstract: Stone bunding (kab) is an age-old local conservation practice at Mesobit-Gedeba. This study was conducted to assess the effect of this indigenous practice on crop yield. We compared original ground slope, terrace width, and slope position of the terraced area. The effect of slope width and slope position were found significant (p < 0·05) for both grain and biomass yields of the terraced sites. The mean grain and biomass yields decreased as the original ground slope of the terraced site increased. Both grain and biomass yields decreased with the width of the inter-terrace area. Significant differences (p < 0·05) in mean grain and biomass yields were observed between the three slope positions. They decreased as one moved up the slope within the inter-terrace area. In general, the study indicated that indigenous stone bunding has a positive effect on sorghum yield. Future studies should address different locations and crops and ways of integrating indigenous stone bunding with the current conservation programmes of the region. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
32 citations
TL;DR: The PI arts of South Sumatra that for several thousand years had carried the imprint of shifting cultivation had now undergone a drastic change involving complete removal of the second-growth forests; the leveling, bunding, and, where necessary, terracing of the land; and, finally, construction of irrigation works which included dams, water distribution headworks, and a system of canals.
Abstract: [PI arts of South Sumatra that for several thousand years had carried the imprint of shifting cultivation had now undergone a drastic change involving complete removal of the second-growth forests; the leveling, bunding, and, where necessary, terracing of the land; and, finally, construction of irrigation works which included dams, water distribution headworks, and a system of canals.... A new feature of the landscape was the presence of large rice mills to handle the rich harvest of an area that had become in a relatively short time span a new rice granary capable of supporting some four hundred to five hundred persons per square kilometer....
25 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the efficiency of bunding and fertilizer application for improving rice productivity in the two toposequential positions (upslope and downslope positions) in an inland valley.
24 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the crop model EPIC (Environmental Policy Integrated Climate) to assess soil water dynamics and rice crop growth as affected by bunding and fertilizer application in inland valley systems of West Africa.
20 citations
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| 2019 | 2 |
| 2018 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2 |
| 2015 | 1 |
| 2013 | 4 |