This research has taken effort to quantify the technical efficiency of the inland fisheries sector in the Mannar district and to identify important socio-economic factors which determines final harvest of the fishermen. A ...

The transformation of biowaste into high-performance functional materials presents a promising strategy for sustainable environmental technologies. In this study, a novel biogenic carbon-based catalytic matrix (CBCM) was ...

Besides being used for drinking, a large portion of fresh water is exhausted by way of irrigation. By adopting modern technology in irrigation, the squandering of fresh water in agriculture could be greatly minimized. ...

In the dry zone of Sri Lanka, dairy farms are owned and operated predominantly by smallholders whose management practices are rather arbitrary resulting in low milk yields. In Poonakari Division of the Kilinochchi District, ...

The civil unrest of the recent past destroyed the life style of the people, while decimating the infrastructure and rendering robust and persevering people disabled and dead. Consequently, in many households' women being ...

Besides being a part of the household diet in Sri Lanka rice is the staple food and, the highest cultivated crop in Sri Lanka. Thus elevation of resilience is both theoretically and practically the most consistent and ...

It is widely recognized that a high level of uncertainty exemplifies the lives of farm households in developing countries. Jaffna district, located in the Northern part of Sri Lanka, has been ravaged by war in the last ...

Information seeking behavior of farmer plays a vital role in opening up market opportunities. This behavior influences farmers' decision to choose a most profitable marketing channel. This, study was conducted t to identify ...

This study focused on the farmers' credit default issues in the Kilinochchi District. This feature is intensively felt in the Kilinochchi District because majority of the farmers have lost their properties and livelihood ...

This research has taken effort to identify the determinants and quantify the effect of these determinants on the participation decision of the Thenmaradchi peasant farm women in both on-farm and non-farm activities. ...