For centuries, rice has been the backbone of Sri Lankan agriculture, with over one million hectares of paddy fields cultivated annually, accounting for 37% of the country’s land. However, as climate ...

These facts caused a breakdown in agricultural extension and any development in paddy production or in any crop production cannot be done now. Paddy cultivation has to get reorganized immediately and ...

Sri Lanka’s new President Dissanayake is facing his first big test – rising rice prices. High import tariffs and a powerful ...

Repercussions on prices to be felt by next March or April Recent heavy rains have completely destroyed approximately 80,000 ...

The Essential Food Commodities Importers & Traders Association says that the first shipment of imported rice will arrive in ...

A donation of 55,000 metric tonnes of Muriate of Potash (MOP) fertilizer, also known as ‘Bandi Pohora,’ has been handed over ...

Some 40 percent of the country’s crops and fruits are lost annually due to the wild animal menace, says farmer leader ...

Russian fertilizer company Uralchem has delivered 55,000 metric tons of potash to Sri Lanka in a humanitarian gesture aimed ...

Commercial Bank is the biggest lender overall to Sri Lanka’s small and medium enterprises (SME) sector and the second biggest lender to the country’s agriculture sector. In 2023, the bank lent ...

In 2023, Sri Lanka recorded over 9,000 cases of rat fever, resulting in nearly 200 deaths, she said. Weerakoon warned that if left untreated, the illness could cause severe damage to vital organs such ...

For centuries, rice has been the heartbeat of Sri Lankan agriculture, with over 1 million hectares of paddy fields cultivated ...