Instability of prices of coconut and coconut products is a well-known phenomenon in Sri Lanka during the last decade. Therefore, an appropriate forecasting model of prices is needed for producers, consumers and policy ...

Open Educational Resources (OERs) are useful tools in teaching and learning process and are widely used throughout the world. It can be used to make the teaching learning process more effective in higher education and ...

India and Sri Lanka have signed the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture (AoA), the South Asian Preferential Trading Agreement (SAPTA) and Indo-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement (ISLFTA) to enhance global, regional and ...

Tea is the main export plantation crop and the main foreign exchange earner among agricultural products of Sri Lanka. In 1998 Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) named tea as a food commodity. Consumers in the global ...

Effectiveness of service delivery system of public sector organizations like Department of Agriculture (DoA) de pends on the job satisfaction of the relevant officers. Research Officers (ROs), Agriculture Officers (AOs), ...

In many aspects, women are more disadvantaged than men around the world. Particularly women in rural areas in developing countries suffer much from poverty, less access to opportunities and less participation in decision ...

Although "environmental literacy" is a difficult concept to define, it means the capability for a contextual and detailed understanding of an environmental problem in order to enable analysis, synthesis, evaluation, ...

Urbanization and consumerism has led the society to the breakdown of rural value systems. Literature revealed that the per-capita income has increased making the behavioral patterns more complex. Production of unmanageable ...

As Sri Lanka enters the next phase of mass urbanization, one of the challenges that the nation faces is to devise a sustainable Solid Waste Management system (SWM) which would be capable of coping with the ever growing ...

Mushroom cultivation is considered as a profitable agribusiness and has greater relevance, to the rural development. The various problems encountered in this industry have not been discussed enough. The current ...