SLM Approaches - Sri Lanka

Site specific fertilizer recommendations for farmlands after soil testing is now being implemented in Welimada area by the Degraded Agricultural Land Rehabilitation Project (RDALP) of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations. The Badulla district field coordinator of the RDALP Upul Jayaweera said that soil testing has already been completed around 90% of the farmlands in the selected project implementing micro watershed  areas of the district.

Women in the Central Highlands of Sri Lanka practice sustainable land management through vanilla cultivation and earn extra income for their families. The average land size of home gardens in the Central Highlands of Sri Lanka is about 0.25 ac – 0.5 acre. Fruits and spice trees randomly exist in these land plots. The topsoil is always disturbed due to daily human activities. Apart from run-off water from upper lands, rooftop rainwater flows in all directions causing heavy soil erosion in the home gardens.