Field Activities Zambia

Details: Created on Monday, 01 October 2012 08:54; Written by Erik van den Elsen

The following WHT were described with the WOCAT questionnaires

Country	Technology	Description	Picture
Zambia	Animal draft-Ripping	Improves soil water storage by breaking compacted soil, preserves soil cover, increases infiltration and organic matter content. Depressed furrows harvest rainwater
Zambia	Animal draft-Strip tillage (new)	Loosens by lifting the soil with sub-surface wingsand letting it fall in place, which causes less soil disturbance and improves infiltration, organic matter content and water holding capacity
Zambia	Animal draft-Zero tillage (new)	Low cost planter makes zero-till possible for animal draft farmers.
Zambia	Hand hoe Planting basins		-

The following WHT were selected for test-implementation

Zai pits
Magoye ripper
ox-drawn strip tillage
ox-drawn zero tillage with the GART planter

The pictures below gives an impression of the selection workshop.

Picture: Arthur Chomba

A site for field implementation was selected, and WHT will be implemented before the next
rainy season. As most of the selected WHT are different ways of ploughing, they cannot be
implemented earlier.