“Sri Lanka started subsidizing fertilizers in the 1960s and we saw that rice yields tripled,” says Saloni Shah, a food and agriculture analyst at the Breakthrough Institute, a US-based ...

"What made the difference in Sri Lanka was its fertilizer ban." We are right to worry about chemical fertilizer. Not only is the nitrous oxide it emits a greenhouse gas, but when nitrogen runs off ...

It was built around chemical fertilizers and crops bred to be disease-resistant. Fifty-two years later, Sri Lanka has pulled off a revolution that is “antigreen” in the modern sense, toppling ...

The disruption this caused to Sri Lanka’s agriculture sector could not have come at a worse time. The tourism industry, the country’s foreign exchange earner and the backbone of its economy ...

Chairman of the Sectoral Oversight Committee on Food Security and Agriculture, Member of Parliament D. Weerasinghe during a media briefing held on Tuesday (05) at the Presidential Media Centre under ...

In the face of Sri Lanka being repeatedly bullied by China in the fertilizer issue by taking money and not supplying fertilizer, Sri Lanka’s Minister of Agriculture has proposed the Cabinet to ...

COLOMBO – Sri Lanka’s economy shrank 8.4% in the quarter through June from a year ago in one of the steepest declines seen in a three-month period, amid fertilizer and fuel shortages during the nation ...

GALENBINDUNUWEWA, Sri Lanka—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 ...

Nitrogen Emissions from synthetic fertilizers. Agriculture Canada. There is a reason for that. Agricultural emissions are 10% of total national emissions and are growing every year, up 33% since 1990.

Russian fertilizer company Uralchem has delivered 55,000 metric tons of potash to Sri Lanka in a humanitarian gesture aimed at addressing food shorta Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT عربي ...

627. Sri Lanka should look at modernizing the agricultural sector as it could become a very high FOREX earner and also help towards food security, said Minister of Agriculture and and Plantation ...