Maize is cultivated in Sri Lanka with an average yield of 3.52 tonne/ha which is adequate for 40% of the local demand. Cultivation yield improvement is essential to reduce future maize imports where chemical fertilizer ...

Sweet potato mixed wheat composite flour could make a protein rich product with good bai: -: qualities, which would increase the economic value. Therefore, a research was carried ou: develop a low gluten muffin, supplemented ...

More than half of the world's population consumes rice as the staple food and Australia produces 1.2 million tons of rice per year feeding around 40 million people daily. Future climate change predicts increase ...

Scarcity of water for irrigation is an alarming issue limiting crop production worldwide and it is increasing severely in Sri Lanka. The rice yield is highly susceptible to moisture stress especially during the ‘Yala’ ...

To investigate growth and yield performances of popular traditional (15) and improved (15) rice varieties, 14 day old seedlings were transplanted in experimental plots (8x3m) with 3 replicates to randomized complete ...

Ecofeed is an animal feed made from food, beverage and agricultural by-products and that is expected to reduce feed processing cost, increase feed self-sufficiency in Japan and urge effective utilization of unused ...

Germplasm evaluation is a part of the methodology of the plant breeding programmes to select adaptive and high yielding genotypes. Evaluation of sesame germplasm is essential task as it is important to find out special ...

Pineapple (Ananas comosus) crown is not used as a propagule for commercial cultivation as it takes long duration to fruiting. Large number of pineapple crowns is disposed at harvesting as waste material without any ...

A pot experiment was carried out at the crop farm, Eastern University of Sri Lanka, from January to May 2019 to evaluate the impact of Moringa oleifera leaf extract (MLE) on yield and quality attributes of chilli ...