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Agriculture. The System of Rice Intensification ( SRI) is a farming methodology that aims to increase the yield of rice while using fewer resources and reducing environmental impacts. The method was developed by a French Jesuit Father Henri de Laulanié in Madagascar [ 1] and built upon decades of agricultural experimentation. SRI focuses on ...
Farmers planting rice in Cambodia. A paddy field is a flooded field of arable land used for growing semiaquatic crops, most notably rice and taro. It originates from the Neolithic rice-farming cultures of the Yangtze River basin in southern China, associated with pre-Austronesian and Hmong-Mien cultures.
Rice production or Paddy production is one of the main productions and staple foods in Sri Lanka. It cultivates in all districts of Sri Lanka during two monsoon seasons. It is estimated that about 708,000 ha (1,750,000 acres) of land uses for paddy. [ 1] The seasons are called Maha season and Yala season. (Literally, Sinhala word Maha means ...
Aerial view of the Southern Province showing the land use patterns of the coastal belt. The primary form of agriculture in Sri Lanka is rice production. Rice is cultivated during Maha and Yala seasons. [ 1] Tea is cultivated in the central highlands and is a major source of foreign exchange. Vegetables, fruits and oilseed crops are also ...
Farmhand. Farmhand (styled "farmhand") is a software platform developed in-house by Freight Farms, designed to allow hydroponic growers to control farm components remotely, automate certain tasks, analyze past and current growing data, and manage their business. [9] The software was originally developed for Freight Farms' customers, but is now ...
The Ministry of Agriculture[ 2] ( Sinhala: කෘෂිකර්ම අමාත්යාංශය; Tamil: கமத்தொழில் அமைச்சு) is the central government ministry of Sri Lanka responsible for agriculture. The ministry is responsible for formulating and implementing national policy on home affairs and other ...
Sri Lanka Railway Authority. Sri Lanka Rubber Manufacturing Export Co. Ltd. Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation. Sri Lanka State Plantations Corporation. Sri Lanka Transport Board. State Development & Construction Corporation. State Engineering Corporation of Sri Lanka. State Mortgage & Investment Bank. State Pharmaceuticals Corporation of Sri Lanka.
Chena is the oldest cultivation method in Sri Lanka, it goes far back as more than 5,000 years.(Before the Anuradhapura Kingdom) [1] [2] it the dry zone, the recovery of a chena plot proceeds through various stages of succession, (active chena, abandoned chena, chena re-growth, scrub with pioneer three species, scrub with secondary tree species, secondary forest, secondary forest with primary ...