A staple Sri Lankan rice and curry meal. Pictured are bandakka (okra stir fry), bonchi (beans in coconut milk), wam batu thel dala (eggplant), kesel muwa malluma (banana flower stir fry).

Sri Lanka has been self-sufficient when it comes to rice for decades. Now fertiliser and fuel shortages mean it will have to rely on foreign aid to import hundreds and thousands of tonnes of food ...

By Lalin I De Silva. This article intends to explore how Value Chain Management (VCM) can optimise cost structures in Sri Lanka’s paddy farming sector; to present innovative rice-based products that ...

In Sri Lanka, rice is the staple. ... whereas I could sell as many 400–500 kilos of white rice. Today, it is totally different. People consume red rice increasingly due to health factors.

The restaurant’s founder, Lakruwana Wijesinghe, who immigrated to the United States in 1975 from Kiribathgoda, a suburb near Colombo, Sri Lanka’s largest city, designed the chairs and shipped ...

“By the 1940s, Sri Lanka had to import 60 percent of the rice needed for the country’s meagre six million population,” says Marambe.In the following decades, refined wheat flour and white bread rose ...