Palmyrah tuber flour (PTF) is a locally available cheap raw material with many nutritional and medicinal properties. However, the PTF does not contain gluten which is essential to improve the texture of the bread. Hence, ...

Vegetables are good sources of natural antioxidants such as vitamins, carotenoids, flavonoids and other phenolic compounds. Cooking and frozen storage causes considerable changes in the nutritional and structural properties ...

Sri Lanka is blessed with diverse vegetation types, and salicornia is one of the most frequently reported genera. Some Salicornia spp. has a high potential to be introduced as a crop suitable for marginal soils. The first ...

Chilli is grown as a rainfed crop in many parts of Tamil Nadu and India. Drought stress causes early flowering in chilli plants and many other phenotypic changes that lead to poor growth and yield. To date, there is no ...

Seed priming is an approach for enhancing seed germination and seedling vigor that involves controlled hydration and drying of seeds. This process initiates the early stages of germination without allowing radical ...

Application of chemical fertilizers results in adverse effects on soil health, which could be replenished by incorporation of organic amendments viz., green manure, green leaf manure, farmyard manure, etc. The unavailability ...

The application of microbial ameliorators (MA) is a promising method to improve compost quality. Hence, this study was conducted at the Faculty of Agriculture, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, to investigate the effect ...

This research was conducted at the Regional Agriculture Research and Development Centre in Kilinochchi to evaluate the combine effect of vermicompost, fish tonic and Trichoderma viride with inorganic fertilizer (NPK) ...

Drought affects significantly on various crops, including tea (Camellia sinensis (L.) Kuntze). Sri Lankan tea cultivation faces frequent challenges of seasonal drought. In the present study, the impact of seasonal drought ...