Leg abnormalities are among the most serious welfare problems in broiler production. Tibia ash content, latency-to-lie and gait scoring systems are used to evaluate the status of leg health of broilers. Objective of this ...

Although there are a number of fisheries and aquaculture development programmes, the country has not yet reached the level of per capita fish consumption level of about 21 kg. To overcome this problem, Sri Lankan government ...

Salmonella species are major zoonotic food-borne pathogens which cause outbreaks and sporadic cases of gastroenteritis in human worldwide. Most Salmonella infections in humans result from the ingestion of contaminated ...

The chicken egg is a perishable food product, which could lose its quality rapidly during storage. With the objective of determining the effect of different egg cartons and storage time and their interaction on change ...

A survey was conducted in Rathnapura district in Sabaragamuwa province, Sri Lanka to identify commonly occurring health problems in cattle and goat and to study the various indigenous medicinal practices used. Pre-tested ...

Climate Change is the statistically significant variation of either mean or its variability, persisting for an extended period of time, typically decades or longer due to changes of atmospheric composition attributable ...

Irrigation management is one of the major components of agriculture management. It is very important to supply exact amount of water to the agricultural field for obtaining optimum utilization of resources. There is some ...

Agriculture has widespread impacts on quantity and quality of water resources. The water footprint (WF) is a metric that quantifies the environmental impacts related to water use. Impacts of rain-fed potato production ...

Sesame, (Sesamum indicum) is one of the oldest and important oil seed crop in the world. Mechanized medium scale method has not been previously applied in the oil expelling industry for sesame seed in Sri Lanka. A study ...

Changes in climate affect livelihood of the people through changes in water availability, water quality and temperature. Agriculture and climate change are inextricably linked, and thereby changes in climate threaten ...