Faculty staff participated to the 3rd international conference on dry zone agriculture, held on 1st and 2nd November 2017 at Faculty of Agriculture, University of Jaffna. Theme of the conference was “innovation towards sustainable agricultural productivity”. Conference was jointly organized by Faculty of Agriculture, University of Jaffna and Ministry of Science, Technology and Research.
Faculty staff conduct research in collaboration with the staff from the Faculty of Agriculture. In this conference, Mr. Saliya Sampath and Dr. S.S. Sivakumar supervised one of the agricultural engineering student’s final year research together with the Agriculture staff Professor T. Mikunthan and Dr. M. Prabaharan. The student presented his research findings in the conference. The research was title on “Assessment of Rainfall stations for its suitability to represent Magalla reservoir catchment, Nikaweratiya”.
