Several months after the aggressive shift, Sri Lanka’s agricultural output has plummeted by 20%, while farmers, who account for 27% of the country’s workforce, have been driven into acute ...

For more than half a century, Pahatha Mellange Jayaappu has tilled the field on his modest farm in Sri Lanka’s agricultural heartland, unswayed by recurrent political and economic turmoil. Now ...

By Prof. W.A.J.M. De Costa Senior Professor and Chair of Crop Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya At present, Sri Lanka is going through a prolonged rain-free period. Several ...

The Green Revolution of Norman Borlaug, the American agronomist who did more to feed the world than any man before or since, set Sri Lanka on the path to agricultural abundance in 1970.