Agronomy Division - Research and Publications
Ongoing Research
Publications
Ongoing Research
| Title/ program | Objective | Expected outcome |
| Development of novel floricultural varieties through physical mutagenesis | Introduce novel flower and folige types to floriculture industry | |
| Study Morphology anatomy , growth and rooting behaviour of promising Brinjal and Capsicum lines under limited water availability | Identification of morphological and physiological characters of drought tolerant varieties | |
| Identification of efficient resource management method for pandol crop cultivation through mix cropping | To maximize land and resource management through combination of same species crops | |
| Development of modern cultivation technologies for Low Priority High Demanding (LPHD) vegetable and root and tuber crops (Eg. Thibbatu, innala Elabatu, Halmassan dambala, Awara) | Introduction and promotion of more adaptable , high demanding and nutritious crops to vegetable farmer | |
| Study the effect of Plant physiological aspects on tuber production and yield of selected sweet potato varieties. | Identify the factors effecting tuber formation | |
| Plant pruning and training for seed quality and seed yield improvement in capsicum | To identify best method of pruning and training to improve seed yeild and quality of female parent of newly released capsicum (Prarthana) | Improvement of seed yeild and quality by plant pruning and training |
| Effect of plant pruning on yeild and quality parameters of tomato | To select the best plant pruning method to increase the fruit yeild and quality parameters | Selction of best treatment combination to improve fruit yeild with good quality |
| Effect of managing fertilizer schedule for protected house grown tomato | To selct the best fertilizer schedule to increase the fruit yeild and quality parameters of protected house grown tomato | Selection of best fertilizer schedule to improve the fruit size and quality |
| Effect of intercropping tomato with radishand beet root | To study the effect of intercropping on yeild parameters of diffeent crop combinations and to increase the land use efficiency | Intercropping of different vegetable crop combination to increase the land use efficiency |
| Identification of best spacing for newly released hybrid capsicum variety prarthana | To select the best spacing level for hybrid capsicum | Selection of the best spacing level |
Publications
- A.D.S.D. Kahadawa Arachchi Optimization of vapor heat treatment to eradicate viability of weed seeds in coco peat
- Alternative growth media for soilless cultivation of bell pepper (Capsicum annum L.) in protected culture.
- Effect of chloromaquat chloride 50% SL. Application on growth and yield of capsicum (Capsicum annum L.)
Publications
Publications
- A.D.S.D. Kahadawa Arachchi Optimization of vapor heat treatment to eradicate viability of weed seeds in coco peat
- Alternative growth media for soilless cultivation of bell pepper (Capsicum annum L.) in protected culture.
- Effect of chloromaquat chloride 50% SL. Application on growth and yield of capsicum (Capsicum annum L.)