Professor of Geography, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. Research Fellow, International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Kandy, Sri Lanka. Author ofStructural Change in Plantation Agriculture in Sri... Gerald Hubert Peiris•All Fact-checked by ...
In all these areas, people were moving toward agriculture by 8000 bp. Although the northern regions are relatively dry today, they were wetter in the past; river valley locations would have further ameliorated regional aridity. Early settlements consisted of groups of pit houses, a form of ...
Importance of the Diversity within the Halophytes to Agriculture and Land Management in Arid and Semiarid Countries Freshwater resources will become limited in near future and it is necessary to develop sustainable biological production systems, which can tolerate hyper-... HW Koyro,H Lieth,B Gul,...
Geekiyanage, Nalakaa Department of Plant Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Puliyankulama, Anuradhapura 50000, Sri Lanka;b Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya 20400, Sri LankaPushpakumara, D.K.N.G....
of paddy fields, the tanks gradually fell into disrepair, turning much of the countryside into malarial swampland. A modern historian calls this a "regrettable but understandable situation, given the fact that the higher bureaucracy itself had been so deeply involved in plantation agriculture" ...
The Survey Department of Sri Lanka, the Land Use Policy Planning Department, Anuradhapura, Natural Resources Management Centre of the Department of Agriculture, Sri Lanka and the farmers of the study area are kindly acknowledged for providing data....
Small tanks, the ancient man-made rain water storage systems, support the pheasant life and agriculture of the dry zone of Sri Lanka. Many small tanks were abandoned with time due to various reasons. Such tanks, rehabilitated in the rece... NKK Welgama,WADP Wanigasundera - 《World Academy...
9 RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook ancient documents deeds and other documents that are more than 30 years old and that are probative (i.e. they prove themselves and do not require proof of their execution when coming from proper custody). ...
This may indicate some interesting variation in hunter-gatherer body size within South Asia, whereby some populations were extremely short while others very tall. The potential causes of this variation require future investigation. The continued gradual decline since agriculture was adopted is consistent ...
Ancient forests which have never been under agriculture often have larger ecological and pedological value than later established forests. We made a recons... B.,Bossuyt,J.,... - 《Soil Use & Management》 被引量: 75发表: 1999年 A field methodology for assessing man-made disturbance in fore...