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« Previous EntriesProtect and Promote Traditional Food Crops To Increasing Agricultural Bio Diversity
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009Modern food supply chain is highly dependent on improved commercial varieties and genetically modified varieties. Unfortunately most of these types are under risk of having health hazards for humans and also increase cost of production or need high levels of inputs. In fact we think the improved crops are high yielding; it’s not true, because, […]
HELP-O Biogas Program Livelihood development using NTFP (Non timber forest Products) in sustainable manner
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009Masmulla forest area of 863 hectares, situated in Matara District, Southern Province of Sri Lanka is faced to few threats. These threats were correctly noticed by WTSS and searched for a solution with the help of FD. Traditional basket weaving industry (Kulu watti Products) is spread in surrounding villages adjoined to Masmulla forest for about […]
Community Based Ecosystem Conservation Approach (CBECA) – A new concept used for Sea Turtle Conservation in Sri Lanka
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009Five out of seven species of endangered sea turtles nest in Sri Lanka including Critically endangered Leatherback turtles and Hawksbill turtles. Destruction of the coastal ecosystems by coastal communities is a substantial problem in Sri Lanka. Coastal communities have to depend on their surrounding natural resources for survival. As a result, very important coastal habitats […]
HELP-O Biogas Program
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009HELP-O has started to construct biogas plant in 2004 in Karapitiya Teaching Hospital in Galle which is one of major hospitals in Sri Lanka. On that time that hospital faced critical issue that is solid waste problem but the organization had a vision that is to build a biogas plant inside the hospital. When this […]
Survey of new trends and changes of polythene products after implementation the new thin polythene regulation No 1466/5, 2006.10.10
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009Uncontrolled and needless use of polythene is still creating adverse environmental impacts. The Ministry of Environment of Sri Lanka and the Central Environmental Authority took the initiative with wide stakeholder participation to introduce regulatory measures to minimize negative impacts on the environment and human health due to thin polythene. Through Gazette numbered 1466/5 and dated […]
Evaluation of Socio-Economic status among estate workers in plantation sector
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009Tea, Rubber and coconut are the main commercial crops in Sri Lanka. Other than state owned plantations; regional plantation companies (RPCs), small holders and home gardens significantly contribute for the total production of them.
Through contributing significantly to the national economy, the socio-economic status of estate workers is not satisfactory. The objective of this study is […]
Economics of intercropping of coconut smallholders: A study of Gampaha District
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009Coconut is the largest plantation crop covering 395,000 ha of land area and contributes to considerable amount of export earning in the country. Although intercropping under coconut is being practiced for long time, proper investigations into economic issues has been rather limited. The present study was therefore conducted to study the intercropping patterns of the […]
Estimation of Physical Accounts for Forest Resources of Sri Lanka: Study of Anuradhapura and Nuwara Eliya Districts
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009Natural resource accounting has been accepted as an essential pre-requisite for sustainable economic development. Changes in resource stocks provide an indication of the status of resource which provides guidelines for appropriate inter-temporal resource allocation for sustainable development. The System of national Accounts (SNA) is the widely practiced national accounting system but it provides only inadequate […]
Economic Valuation of flood control benefit of Heen Ela Sub Catchment of Colombo City
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009Flood control is a functional benefit that wetland performs. When wetlands are filled, water retention capacity is reduced leading to floods with short storm events. This paper discusses the non market value of wetland in the Heen Ela sub catchment of Colombo. Heen Ela Marsh South is one of the 14 sub-catchment of the Colombo […]
A quantitative study to propose effective guidelines for household composting
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009Solid waste is a major environmental problem in Sri Lanka. The main disposal sites are marsh lands, low lands, river banks & other wet lands. More than 80% of the waste generated in Sri Lanka consist of organic materials. When compared to other developing countries there is a great possibility in composting the waste and […]
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