INTRODUCTION Leptospirosis is a zoonotic disease, which has become a major public health threat in Sri Lanka. A majority of patients are farmers in rural endemic areas. The purpose of the present study is to describe the level of knowledge and frequencies of risky practices related to leptospirosis among a sample of rural school adolescents in Galgamuwa, Kurunegala district, a highly endemic ar...

The productivity of paddy field farming during the last five years has decreased so that it an impact on farmers' revenue. purpose this study was to analyze level income and feasibility factors affect farming. research conducted in Kerinci Regency, Jambi Province, for eight calendar months. Research data is sourced from primary secondary data. Primary were collected through structured interview...

Weed is an unwanted plant which grown in agriculture land. The land not cultivated will be fully covered by Weeds. Management of weed the major concern for farmer because reduce crop production quantity. There are many methods to control weeds, one those manual plucking expensive it takes more time, consumes human work. Second applying any chemicals suggested external experts. This may cause da...

Abstract The study purpose was to estimate greenhouse gases produced in agricultural sector Teluk Bintuni Regency. Data were taken from 15 farmer groups districts, and 6 families of rice farmers assisted by Tangguh LNG’ CSR. calculation method uses IPCC 2006 Tier 2. correction factor used calculating Bintuni’s GHG is adjusted based on land area, soil type, type fertilizer, irrigation used. resu...

A friend of mine in the UK Paddy Walsh has passed on to me your recent ruminations on “How genre theory saved the world”. I note that Paddy is a former subject English teacher and SNS English consultant, and familiar with work done using genre theory in the UK. As I was one of the genre theorists with whom you exchanged articles in English in Australia a good many years ago, I thought I might r...

Studies on breeding Anopheles albitarsis and association with rice growth in irrigated paddy fields were carried out during the rice cultivation cycle from December 1993 to March 1994. This period corresponded to the length of time of permanent paddy flooding. Breeding occurred in the early stage up until five weeks after transplantation when rice plant height was small. That inverse correlatio...

In the north west Indo-Gangetic Plain (N.W.IGP), large scale post-harvest paddy residue fires occur every year during the months of October-November. This anthropogenic perturbation causes contamination of the atmospheric environment with adverse impacts on regional air quality posing health risks for the population exposed to high concentrations of carcinogens such as benzene and toxic VOCs su...

This paper presents the classification method of various paddy varieties as per the rice processing requirement. In first phase four morphological features of the individual as well as group's average features of paddy were extracted using image processing. Out of these four features only two features (minor axis and area) are providing sufficient information to classify the paddy as per the re...

The management and improvement of paddy soils fertility are key factors for the future capacity of rice production. The return of rice straw to paddy soils is the best alternative to the application of industrial fertilizers for rice production sustainability. The best strategy for applying rice straw to improve soil nutritional capacity during rice growth has not yet been investigated. We comp...