Arduino is a complete microcontroller development board series for all types of embedded system developing projects. Still people use PIC microcontrollers because of the lower price. Since Arduino isan opensource platform there are many free project source codes available online. Arduino isis compatible with many other open source technologies such as PHP, Java, Android, UBUNTU and Raspberry Pi. Also there ...
I started blogging on May, 2007. Since then 48,575 people have visited my blog. I don't post popular Tech stuff or gossips, and no SEO, SMO or keyword optimization. Glad to know when somebody wants to know about weeds of Sri Lanka my blog is the best place. In 2007/2008 I posted some information about weed species of Sri ...
Automated egg hatching machines are very useful for urban farmers to manage there hatching within limited space. Automated egg hatching machines creates health environment and give higher successful hatching rate.
Factory automation is becoming an essential thing for Sri Lankan factories due to increase in labor cost and abundance of labor. Specially Tea factories are facing difficulties due to higher labor cost.
According to Disaster management centre total of 726 people were dead, 450 were injured, 7050 houses were damaged and 50886 people were affected during 1998 to 2012 in Sri Lanka. Month Deaths Injured Houses Damaged People affected Central 76 49 1453 8866 Eastern 85 50 398 4787 North-Central 249 162 1740 10268 Northern 6 2 2 180 North-Western 196 108 ...
Over the last two centuries, human land-use have forced the elephants from the wet and fertile regions of the south-west of the island to much drier regions. As the human population increases and agricultural areas expand at the expense of forests, elephant habitats were continually reduced. As a consequence almost 70% of the elephant’s range in Sri Lanka lies ...
Agriculture crops can be classified in many ways, but there is a standard classification initiated my Department of Agriculture (DOA) of Sri Lanka. Priority given to different types of crops change have change in last two decade. For example Minor export crops (සුලූ අපනයන භෝග) slowly become a significant cash generating crop in expor market. Even though the land ...
Classification of Fruit crops Tropical - Mango, Rambutan, Banana, Durian, Mangustin, (sweet) oranges, Sub tropical - Oranges, Mango Temperate - Apples, Pearce, Peach, Strew berry, 50 fruit crops grown in Sri Lanka Also there are internal variations.Production systems of fruits. (i) Wild or uncultivated landsSome fruits can be gathered from wild of uncultivated lands. Longan (Mora), woodapple, Bale fruit, ...
Measurement of Agro-climatic factors. Climtic Factor UnitsInstruments used Rain fall mmtipping bucket Relative humidity %Psychrometer Wind direction Wind vane Wind velocity km/hrCup counter anemometer EvaporationmmEvaporimeter Solar radiation hr/dayCampbell strokes General Climatic Conditions of Sri Lanka. Sunshine Average sunshine hours per day in Sri Lanka December-11.40hrs-shortest day June-12.30hrs-longest day difference between shortest day and longest dayis 50min. East & North - ...
Everybody talks about negative side of weeds always. Let me explain some possitives of weeds before moving to the negative side. Weeds Control soil erosion. Add nutrients to the soil after decomposition Has a medicinal value. Legumes fix atmospheric nitrogen provide animal and human food. use a mulches sometimes grown as anermental plant. sometimes produce chemical compounds, that prevent pests ...
BOTANICAL NAME : Vernonia ceneriaFAMILY : AsteraceaeCOMMON NAME : MonerekudumbiyaHABIT : HerbLIFE CYCLE : AnnualMORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERS :Stem is 1.5 feet long. Errect growth & branchedseeds have hair. So that it can rapidly shaped bywind. oval shaped leaves are attached to the stem.By keeping little distance in each other. smallflowers are Bright Purple stalks.AGRICULTURE IMPORTANCE :valuable medicine. Compete with crops foressential ...
FeedBurner is the leading provider of media distribution and audience engagement services for blogs and RSS feeds.FeedBurner also offers the largest feed and blog advertising network.FeedBurner
In biological taxonomy, a kingdom or regnum is a taxon in either the highest rank, orthe rank below domain. Each kingdom is divided into smaller groups called phyla (or in some contexts these are called "divisions"). Currently in textbooks from the United States, a system of six kingdoms (Animalia, Plantae, Fungi,Protoctista, Archaea and Prokaryota), while in British and Australian textbooks, ...
Certain plants flower only during certain times of the year. One of the reasons for this is that these plants are able to "measure" the length of the night. However, it was thought that it is the day length to which plants reacted and this phenomenon was termed photoperiodism. Photoperiodism can be defined as the relative lengths of daylight ...
