Red rice which holds both cultural and dietary significance is now in short supply in the market, and the phenomenon is attributed to multiple factors despite political colouring of the issue. ..

Sri Lanka has red rice stocks but they are only sold after 500 pm when the Consumer Affairs Authority closes, Deputy Minister ...

Rajan Philips There is an abundance of historical data available on the extent of land cultivation and the amount of paddy ...

Paddy cultivation in the country is a peasant industry with no corporate bodies involved unlike in tea. The paddy lands are ...

Sri Lanka shipped rice processed in different forms worth millions of rupees to dozens of countries in 2023, a period when paddy production exceeded 4.5 million metric tonnes, estimated to be enough ...

Recently, a friend of mine posed an important puzzle to me: “I know the value of ‘free trade and competition’ for the success of businesses, but I have a difficulty of applying it to our rice ...

Rice shortages in Sri Lanka have disrupted the Hindu Thai Pongal celebrations ... while some 350,000 metric tons are allocated for animal feed and 50,000 metric tons for beer production. Nicola Manuel ...

Kenya has emerged as a threat to the Indian subcontinent’s exclusivity to basmati rice with farmers in the Ahero region of ...

Sri Lanka has collected 10.9 billion rupees from imported rice up to January 10, Secretary to the Ministry of K A ...

Friendship between China and Sri Lanka enjoys a long history. Dating back to 1952, the two countries signed the Rubber-Rice Pact, which ensured the right to life for hunger-stricken Sri Lankans at ...