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SRI International ( SRI) is an American nonprofit scientific research institute and organization headquartered in Menlo Park, California. The trustees of Stanford University established SRI in 1946 as a center of innovation to support economic development in the region. The organization was founded as the Stanford Research Institute.
Agriculture. The System of Rice Intensification ( SRI) is a farming methodology that aims to increase the yield of rice while using fewer resources and reducing environmental impacts. The method was developed by a French Jesuit Father Henri de Laulanié in Madagascar [1] and built upon decades of agricultural experimentation.
The Romanian Intelligence Service ( Romanian: Serviciul Român de Informații, abbreviated SRI) is Romania 's main domestic intelligence service. Its role is to gather information relevant to national security and hand it over to relevant institutions, such as Romanian Government, presidency and law enforcement departments and agencies.
Sri Lanka is officially a Buddhist country, while Sri Lankans practice a variety of religions. As of the 2012 census, 70.2% of Sri Lankans were Buddhists, 12.6% were Hindus, 9.7% were Muslims (mainly Sunni ), 7.4% were Christians (mostly Catholics ). [2] [3] Buddhism is declared as the State religion of Sri Lanka and has been given special ...
Sri Lanka scimitar babbler. The Sri Lanka scimitar babbler or Ceylon scimitar babbler ( Pomatorhinus melanurus) is an Old World babbler. It is endemic to the island of Sri Lanka, and was formerly treated as a subspecies of Indian scimitar babbler. [2] The nominate form is found in the western part of wet hill regions of Sri Lanka, while race ...
Sri Lanka Tennis Association (SLTA) is a national governing body of tennis in Sri Lanka founded in 1915, which represents Sri Lanka on associations like the International Tennis Federation and the Asian Tennis Federation. Its main aim is to popularise tennis in all parts of Sri Lanka as a professional sport and to produce top tennis players ...
The first mestiços descended from Portuguese explorers, soldiers and merchants who reached Ceylon (an earlier name of Sri Lanka) after the pioneering voyage of Vasco da Gama. When the Dutch East India Company took over coastal Ceylon, the descendants of the mestiços took refuge in the central hills of Kingdom of Kandy under Sinhalese rule.
Economic ties. Cuba and Sri Lanka have cooperated in a number of sectors with the goal of mutual development and economic progress. This cooperation has been especially noted in the sectors of risk management and biotechnology. [6] Ties in the agriculture sector have been developed, and the similar climates of both countries [7] have enabled ...