According to local farmers, they spend around 150,000 to 175,000 rupees per acre (0.4 hectares) to cultivate vegetables. The prices for seeds and chemicals have gone up rapidly in last two or ...

Millions of Sri Lankan farmers are being hard hit by ongoing government attempts to impose the burden of the country’s unprecedented economic crisis on the working class and the rural masses ...

Mystery kidney disease killing Sri Lankan farmers. Associated Press. ... which affects an estimated 70,000 to 400,000 people in Sri Lanka's rice ... Rice paddies and vegetable fields soon dotted ...

Sri Lankan vegetable farmer Pathmasiri Kumara removes weeds in his potato field in Keppetipola, Sri Lanka on July 1, 2021. Sri Lanka has cut back on imports of farm chemicals, ...

Sri Lanka has announced compensation for more than a million rice farmers whose crops failed under a botched scheme to establish the world’s first 100-percent organic farming nation.. The island ...

Sri Lanka has cut back on imports of farm chemicals, cars and even its staple spice turmeric as its foreign exchange reserves dwindle, hindering its ability to repay a mountain of debt as the ...

H.J.M Seneviratne, 63, slices through yellowed paddy stems dried out by a drought that has destroyed over 95% of his crop and is threatening crisis-hit Sri Lanka's summer rice harvest.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa abruptly banned chemical fertiliser imports in mid-2021, he turned ...

Most of Sri Lanka's tea is grown by smaller farmers, like Rohan Tilak Gurusinghe, who owns two acres of land close to the village of Kadugunnawa.