Monthly Archive: August 2006
Community Forestry in Nepal
Rachitha SilvaThe people of Nepal are heavily reliant on subsistence agriculture and Forests are an integral part of the agriculture and lives of them. The concept of community forestry is primarily focused on encouraging...
Selection and Field Establishment of Tree Crops for Large Scale Plantations in Wet, Dry and Intermediate Zones of Sri Lanka
Rachitha SilvaLarge-scale forest tree planting in Sri Lanka started in late 1950’s and till December 1998 has covered about 140,000 ha of forest plantations belonging to the Forest Department. The main plantation species are...
Planting of Trees in Saline Soils
H.M.A.B. Herath Soil salinity is the oldest soil pollution problem. The collapse the Babylonian empire is considered to be partly the result, of failure of irrigated crops due to the accumulation of salt. The...
Environmental Pollution and its Mitigation Measures of the Shrimp Farming Industry
Rachitha silvaThe current shrimp aquaculture industry in Sri Lanka is concentrated in the North Western coastal belt covering a farm area of more than 4,500 ha with 1,344 farm establishments. The major components of...
Economic Evaluation of Energy Externalities
H.M.A.B. HerathExternalities arise due to failures in market, policy or institutions. Externalities exist when economic transactions between two or more parties result in an impact on a third party, who is not involved in...
Plan for the development of Wooden Items sector in Sri Lanka
Rachitha silvaThe production of various wooden items targets the local as well as global export market. These products include wooden toys, sport goods and educational items for children, Household items, Figurines, Sculpture and Masks,...
Economic Evaluation of Agrochemical Externalities
Rachitha SilvaAssessing the true costs and benefits of pesticide use is much more complicated than for technologies such as fertilizer application or new crop varieties. Most of impacts may take many years to emerge...
