The vegetable production in Sri Lanka is burdened by decreasing arable lands due to rapid urbanization and ever-increasing demand for food by an exponentially growing population. All the major commercial vegetable-based cropping systems in Sri Lanka predominantly follow the conventional production ...
COLOMBO, March 20 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka will start setting up 2.2 million home gardens countrywide from next month, said a state minister here on Sunday. The home gardens will be established under a program called "For a green Country", with the aim of increasing the production of fruits ...
The objective of this study is to examine the efficiency and effectiveness of supermarket supply chains and their possible effects on smallholder fresh vegetable farmers in Sri Lanka. The study was conducted in two main up-country vegetable growing areas of the country using case-study strategy. It...
Influence of Planting Date and Microsite on Weed Dynamics in Sugarcane in Sri Lanka Experiments were conducted in Sri Lanka to compare weed seedling emergence in three sugarcane plots of 0.1 ha planted in October 1995, January 1996, and Ap... WRG Witharama,REL Naylor,GP Whytock - 《Weed Sci...
Effective microbes (EM) are the coexisting naturally occurring useful microbes applied as inoculant to enhance the beneficial microflora of the soil ecosystem to facilitate agricultural production. The participating microbial consortium includes lactic a
CONVERTING SMALL HOLDER VEGETABLE FARMS TO SUSTAINABLE1 PRODUCTION IN TROPICAL HIGH ANDEAN CONDITIONS Small holder vegetable farms of the municipality of Cota in the Bogot谩 plateau in Colombia are typically one hectare or less in size. Although the climate... RA Lee - 《Acta Horticulturae》 被引...
Development of a methodology for production of dehydrated tomato powder and study the acceptability of the product Tomato is one of the most popular and widely grown vegetable crops in Sri Lanka. A wide variety of tomato products are prepared by concentrated juice ... KGLR Jayathunge,RANS Kapil...
The goal of the review was to determine the main VOCs reported as being generated from fermented fruit or vegetable substrates, the range of fruit and vegetable substrates used, the different micro-organisms used in previous studies, the fermentation conditions used for VOC production, and the ...
Cucurbits are of enormous economic importance to smallholder farmers, particularly in Asia. The global farm gate value of cucurbits and melons was USD 94 billion in 2016 (equally split between melons and other cucurbits [2]). Asia accounted for 83% of this production, Africa 3%, and South ...
"Dracaena fragrans massangeana" canes in a rooting bed. "Dracaena Sanderiana White" live plants are ready to export. Cavendish banana plants for export orders. Monterey cypress (Christmas) leaves for export Dracaena fragrans massangeana field for leaf production ...