Puttalam Lagoon, the second largest (32,700 ha.) lagoon in Sri Lanka is located in the Puttalam District of the Northwestern Province. The lagoon is fed by two rivers namely, Kala Oya and Mee Oya. Phytoplankton is ...

Mapping gender roles and gender analysis in value chains are essential in understanding different roles and involvement of men and women in dried fish industry. However, women's contribution to dried fish value chains ...

Being the second most expensive spice in the global market, demand for vanilla is increasing daily and vanilla production is a high-income generating agribusiness. Vanilla farming in Sri Lanka has been limited to home ...

An excessive use of synthetic chemical fertilizer (CF), mostly with low quality standards, has resulted significantly adverse effects from the socio-economic and environmental points of view. Further, these have recently ...

Moringa oleifera cultivation for commercial purposes has recently been promoted in Sri Lanka. Though Sri-Lanka is still at an infant stage, understanding the nature of the available value chain will aid in continuous ...

Although the agricultural sector contributes to economic development and livelihood, pollution in the agricultural sector can result in a number of environmental and health risks. As a result, improving agricultural ...

The Ricardian approach has broadly been used in the literature to estimate the economic impacts of climate change on net revenues from agriculture in different geographies due to its ability to account for farmer ...

The role of agriculture has been significantly emphasized in improving the living standard of the population and economic framework of any country. Rostow (1960) in his Stages of Economic Growth explained that agriculture ...

The wastage of cashew apple is high in Sri Lanka. With a view to improve the utilization of cashew apple by value-addition, it was processed into flour and used in the making of cookies. Cashew apple flour (CAF) was ...

Over gelatinization of extruded rice noodles during open wet steam cooking is a major problem in food processing industry. This occurs due to condensation of water droplets which come into contact with noodle strings ...