TRI won the National Awards for Excellence in Agricultural Research


Dr. I Sarath B Abeysinghe, Director of the TRI, Dr. P A Nimal Punyasiri,
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Tea Research Institute of Sri Lanka launches new website

A newly upgraded website for the Tea Research Institute (TRI) was ceremonially launched by the Hon. Minister of Plantations Industries, Mr. Mahinda Samarasinghe (MP) on 11th July 2011 at the auditorium of the Ministry.
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New Kaluthara Extension Centre was declared open

A new Extension Centre was established at Nivithigala- kelle, Matugama for the benefit of the tea growers of the Kaluthara and Colombo Districts.

The new ...

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Third Symposium on Plantations Crop Research

This biannual symposium on plantation crop research was successfully held from 30th September 2010 to 01st October 2010 at the Cinnamon Grand Hotel, Colombo. The even...

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Plant Pathology Division mainly focus on all aspects of tea diseases and their management strategies in order to minimize crop loses while ensuring the cleanliness of tea by minimal use of chemicals for the control of diseases. Therefore, Integrated Disease Management (IDM) approaches are tested for all major disease occurrences.

In addition to research activities, the Division renders disease diagnostic services for tea cultivations and microbial testing services for tea factories.

Key Research Areas
  • Development of accurate and reliable pest severity indices
  • Identification of biological, cultural and chemical control strategies for the incorporation to integrated disease management strategies

 

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Major Achievements

  • Recommendation of a copper fungicide (Perenox) against control of blister blight causal agent, Exobasidium vexans (1946) along with the description of life cycle of E. vexans (1949).
  • Recommendations of control measures against ‘Poria’ disease  tea plantations (1947)
  • Development of a Knapsack sprayer for the control of blister blight (1951)
  • Recommendation of three systemic fungicides (bitertanol, tridermorph, propiconazole) for the control of blister blight (1984)
  • Development of a comprehensive key to be used in cultivar screening for resistance to Macrophoma canker (1997)
  • Development of a method for cultivar screening for resistance to Poria root disease (1998)
  •  Development of a bio formulation of Trichoderma harzianum using locally isolated strain for the control of Poria root disease (2008)
  • Identification of a new causal of agent of stem canker, Fusarium solani, from Low country (2008)

 
 
 
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