Mud and sand have swamped a rice crop across Kalanchi Dewage Risman's two-acre (0.8-hectare) tract that had just been ...

India is also expected to supply other agricultural commodities such as sugar and wheat to Sri Lanka in the coming months. (Representational images) India has commenced shipment of around 40,000 tonne ...

Nallathambi Mahendran walks through his 1.6 hectares of emerald green paddy fields in northern Sri Lanka's Kilinochchi district, indicating the height the plants should have reached by now. They are ...

Indian traders have started loading 40,000 tonnes of rice for prompt shipment to Sri Lanka in the first major food aid since Colombo secured credit line from New Delhi, two officials told Reuters on ...

N allathambi Mahendran walked through his four acres of emerald green paddy fields in northern Sri Lanka's Kilinochchi district, indicating the height the plants should have reached by now. They were ...

What is all the controversy about? Social media was abuzz over a video claiming that Lanka Sathosa was responsible for the sale and distribution of a variety of rice dubbed ‘plastic rice’. The viral ...

The ideological Left and Right in Sri Lanka have staked out their positions on the country’s perennial rice crisis. In the view of the ideological Left, the country’s food crisis including the recent ...

Sri Lanka economic crisis: Lanka's Agricultural Minister Mahinda Amaraweera informed Parliament on Thursday that the cash-strapped country had to import nearly 600,000 metric tonnes of substandard and ...

Now, sometimes it rains in the drought season, but the rainy season is like a drought," says Wajeratna Sudusinghe (above). Oxfam-funded research suggests an approach that could improve the ...

Indian traders have started loading 40,000 tons of rice for prompt shipment to Sri Lanka in the first major food aid since Colombo secured credit line from New Delhi, two officials told Reuters on ...