Back H. Liyanage
Sarvodaya, 98, Rawatawatta Road, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
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Abstract
Sri Lanka being a country with many agricultural resources, is in search
for new technologies to improve the state of the small holder farmers.
EM has been introduced initially to serve this purpose. As of 1999, there
are about 3000 farmers adapting EM for crop cultivation, animal husbandry
and ornamental fish industry. The progress made in the small holder sector
has made an appeal to the large scale plantations, thereby to have several
plantations to adapt EM. Additionally, the EM is being applied for garbage
handling at three town markets and for sewage and waste water treatment
at five major tourist hotels. The progress of the EM extension is made
mainly by the technology transfer done by the NGO named Sarvodaya together
with the continuous research programs done at University of Peradeniya.