Biscuits are a popular food product among the Sri Lankan consumers and are mainly prepared using wheat flour. Underutilized local raw materials could be made use of in the preparation of biscuits to reduce the wheat ...

Foods are diverse and complex materials, which exhibit a wide range of different rheological properties. Viscosity is the one of main rheological property of liquid food. Resorting of this property in the sphere of ...

Sri Lankan vegetable sector experience around 34% to 40% of post harvest losses. Studies have shown that about 75% of post harvest losses are occurred during to vegetable transport process. Therefore, government is ...

Floriculture is rapidly growing in many parts of the world and becoming an important commercial venture. The local production of floriculture products is valued at over US$‘ 14.2 million annually. The introduction of ...

Natural ultra short mutant in rice has recently been identified in the rice field at CIC farm, Palwehera. One F2 population of the cross between Dwarf mutant and Bg300-and three F2 populations each, from the cross between ...

Whey produced as a by product of cheese industry is not utilized for a production process in Sri Lanka. The high nutritive value of cheese whey provides a good nutrient source for the humans, if an edible product is ...

One of the serious problems of small farmers in Sri Lanka is the marketing of their Agricultural commodities at a reasonable price. As an initial step for this, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka has introduced the Forward ...

Beauveria bassiana (Deuteromycotina.Hyphomycetes) is an entomopathogenic fungus known to have wide host range, and have been studying utilization of a locally isolated strain of this fungus to manage Shot-Hole Borer ...

Socio-economic developments through the renewable resources are highly important in the percent situation in the rural area of the dry zone. Multiple use of reservoir together with culture based fisheries is possible ...