Pesticides are widely applied in paddy and crop fields in Kumbukkan Oya watershed to prevent crop yield losses due to the pest infestations. The study area is one of the main paddy and crop cultivated areas in the ...

Phosphorus, is one of the most demanding essential nutrients for crops that is usually supplied through fertilizers. Sri Lanka has a rock phosphate deposit at Eppawala, which can be utilized as a source of phosphorus ...

Monitoring the knowledge of small-scale farmers on pesticide usage would be useful to assess the appropriateness of the information for reducing the risks from pesticides in rural regions of Sri Lanka. The patterns of ...

Purpose : Over the seventy years, various soil erosion modeling methods were developed in the world with different input requirements and complexity. Some of these soil erosion models have been applied in Sri Lanka covering ...

Budgrafting is currently the most popular method of propogation of rubber. The objective of this study was to determine the effect of the budwood on bud grafting success, sprouting and the scion growth. In the first part, ...

Uva Province is one of the most prominent provinces where a number of CKDu patients have progressively increased recently. Since the water and the soil quality are hypothesized as causative factors for CKDu in Sri Lanka, ...