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Sri Lanka

NPP blames previous govts for coconut crisis 

Deputy Minister of Vocational Education Nalin Hewage stated that the reason for the current coconut crisis is the previous government’s failure to properly...

Sri Lanka

Farmers stranded as Govt yet to allocate funds to purchase paddy

It is revealed that the Treasury has not yet notified the Paddy Marketing Board that funds have been allocated for the purchase of...

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka to import coconut products from Indonesia amid shortage

Sri Lanka is looking to import coconut products from Indonesia to address the current coconut shortage in the country, an official from the...

Sri Lanka

Professor warns of an unexpected rise in the price of consumables

Professor Buddhi Marambe of the Faculty of Agriculture’s Crop Science Department of the University of Peradeniya has revealed the main factors that have...

Sri Lanka

Farmers under fire: The fertilizer subsidy dilemma in paddy pricing

The debate surrounding the pricing of paddy in Sri Lanka has taken center stage as Deputy Minister of Agriculture Namal Karanarathna pointed out...

Sri Lanka

If paddy prices increase, a kilo of rice will go up to Rs. 300

Small and medium-scale rice mill owners have warned that the price of a kilogram of rice could exceed Rs. 300 in the future...

Sri Lanka

If rice is given to chickens, egg yolks will turn white – Wasantha

Minister of Trade, Commerce, Food Security and Cooperative Development, Wasantha Samarasinghe, said that chickens only need a certain amount of rice and that...