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Dry Zone Farming in Sri Lanka: Papaya cultivation
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Dry Zone Farming in Sri Lanka. Sunday, June 24, 2007. So with the next set of seedlings I planted I decided to plant it above ground on mounds so there will never be water retention. This meant that I had to ensure when it no longer rains I have to deep water once a week so they get the required moisture. And I am very careful as to how the fruit is plucked and packed as transporting papaya is most important to get it to the customers in the best condition. I have got chicken manure from a local chicken ...
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Dry Zone Farming in Sri Lanka: Rice Paddy cultivation April/May 2007
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Dry Zone Farming in Sri Lanka. Friday, June 22, 2007. Rice Paddy cultivation April/May 2007. Of course I had to spend a further 10,000/- on tractor hire to plough the fields and ready it for transplanting. I do not have my own hand-tractor. I also spent a further 3,500/- on getting the fields cleared of weeds on the perimeter and strengthening them for the gravity fed watering of the fields from the irrigation canal water that I receive. June 23, 2007 at 1:44 AM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I am ...
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Dry Zone Farming in Sri Lanka: The way forward
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Dry Zone Farming in Sri Lanka. Friday, June 22, 2007. There is little one can add to the subjects of the day unless we can actually make a change. Many ideas though sensible are not practical unless there is a grassroots uprising that can push for change. This is not difficult to do. It does not need any money just a change of heart and a determination to do what is right. We have looked for leadership to set the example from the top but as that has been lacking we have to work in reverse and sho...Sri L...
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Dry Zone Farming in Sri Lanka: August 2007
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Dry Zone Farming in Sri Lanka. Wednesday, August 1, 2007. I farm my paddy fields in Hingurakgoda. I depend on water from the Minneriya. Tank) My fields are at the end of the Ela. Tributary of the canal. I do not get any water allocation, as the farmers further ahead of me have diverted the water to their fields. I am not the only farmer to suffer, many farmers further down from the canals origins are also suffer ring. How can we be put in an unbearable situation like this, as we have nothing left with al...
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Dry Zone Farming in Sri Lanka: Craving for position
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Dry Zone Farming in Sri Lanka. Friday, June 22, 2007. In the quest to improve our institutions, to better serve the people whom these bodies have been set up for, we must try and do something about the title. It must also be noted that the last meeting was attended by 50% of the farmers that belonged to the particular area society and it was determined that we fine the half that did not attend in order that we may have a higher turnout next time round! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Dry Zone Farming in Sri Lanka: Farmers fighting for water
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Dry Zone Farming in Sri Lanka. Saturday, June 23, 2007. Farmers fighting for water. I am going to relate a true story of my efforts to obtain my basic entitlement of water from the Minneriya Wewa to cultivate my paddy for both the Yala and Maha season. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Http:/ www.aweekinsrilanka.blogspot.com. Http:/ www.iaald.blogspot.com/. Http:/ www.servesrilanka.blogspot.com. Cows Milk and Powdered Milk the irony. Farmers fighting for water. Rice Paddy cultivation April/May 2007.
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Dry Zone Farming in Sri Lanka: Cows' Milk and Powdered Milk the irony
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Dry Zone Farming in Sri Lanka. Saturday, June 23, 2007. Cows' Milk and Powdered Milk the irony. I have a few cows. They are not anything special. Most of my stock are descended from one cow who is old and lives a pensioned life on the land. Her grand daughters are those that give me milk now along with her daughters. The Ambewela farm in Nuwera Eliya has cows that average 25 liters a day, but the climate there is a distinct advantage. I have therefore decided to try and sell my fresh milk straight off th...
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Dry Zone Farming in Sri Lanka: June 2007
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Dry Zone Farming in Sri Lanka. Sunday, June 24, 2007. So with the next set of seedlings I planted I decided to plant it above ground on mounds so there will never be water retention. This meant that I had to ensure when it no longer rains I have to deep water once a week so they get the required moisture. And I am very careful as to how the fruit is plucked and packed as transporting papaya is most important to get it to the customers in the best condition. I have got chicken manure from a local chicken ...
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Dry Zone Farming in Sri Lanka: Water Crisis
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Dry Zone Farming in Sri Lanka. Wednesday, August 1, 2007. I farm my paddy fields in Hingurakgoda. I depend on water from the Minneriya. Tank) My fields are at the end of the Ela. Tributary of the canal. I do not get any water allocation, as the farmers further ahead of me have diverted the water to their fields. I am not the only farmer to suffer, many farmers further down from the canals origins are also suffer ring. How can we be put in an unbearable situation like this, as we have nothing left with al...
