Evolution of plant growth techniques has increased demand for growth substrates such as peat, zeolite, perlite, pumice and vermiculite but supply has been decreasing while the prices are escalating. The aim of this ...

Vegetables are the second most important agriculture sub-sector after rice in Sri Lanka is. Marketing of vegetables is more complex because of the special characteristics like highly perishable nature, seasonality, ...

Chillie is well known as a spice for its colour and pungency, especially in Asian and African countries. Capsaicin is identified as the major compound responsible for the pungency in chillie. Different chillie varieties ...

Soil water repellency is an important phenomenon that primarily affects the water infiltration rates in soils. The magnitude of soil water repellency can be expressed in terms of soil-water contact angle, in degrees. The ...

Due to the rapid urbanization, greenery is being rapidly destroyed. Urban Heat Island is one of the major adverse effects of lost flora. Green roof systems can be effectively used to control this issue" with a well planned ...

The current solid waste management system in the Galle municipality is full of loopholes. Source separation is hardly practiced and unsorted solid waste is dumped on a semi-controlled landfill. Hence in this study, solid ...

In the service industry, a long term relationship with customers is the key success factor that is enormously increasing with the service quality. The Proliferation o f new channels and the high demand for differentiated ...

As a result of fungal contamination of herbal raw materials, the risk of mycotoxin production, especially aflatoxin, should be taken into consideration in the manufacturing process of herbal drugs. Vortex and ground methods ...

Out of 82 freshwater fish species in Sri Lanka, the Genus Puntius represents 16 species (19.5%). However, ambiguities in taxonomic identification of different Puntius species remain as a well known research area. Hence, ...

දරිද්‍රතාවය යනු සරලව ගත් විට මිනිසාගේ මූලික අවශ්‍යතා ඉටුකර ගැනීමට ඇති නොහැකියාවයි. වර්තමානයේ ලෝකයේ දරිද්‍රතාවයෙන් පෙළෙන ජනගහනය බිලියන 2.8 ට ආසන්න වේ. එම ජනගහනයෙන් හරි අඩක් ජීවත් වන්නේ දකුණු ආසියාවේ ය. ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ...