ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s government will allow the import of 40,000 tonnes of rice as a substitute for Keeri Samba, a higher grade, amid a shortfall in production, the President’s media office said. Foreign in general is also taxed at about 220 dollars a tonne to give profits to farmers when Indica rice similar to […]
The Food Policy and Security Committee has recommended the importation of 40,000 metric tonnes of rice as a substitute for Keeri Samba, the President’s Media Division (PMD) announced today.
More than just rice producers: Sri Lankan paddy fields are also dynamic ecosystems that complement life and agriculture and have done so for centuries. By: Sunil Gamage Agriculture in Sri Lanka is at a deadlock, and for the smallholder farmers, who constitute the backbone of the nation’s food production, it is a question of survival. […]
COLOMBO (News 1st) – The Food Policy and Safety Committee has recommended the importation of rice to ensure an uninterrupted supply for consumers. This decision was made during the committee’s fifth meeting, chaired by Agriculture, Livestock, Land, and Irrigation Minister K.D. Lal Kantha and Trade, Commerce, Food Safety, and Cooperative Development Minister Vasantha Samarasinghe, held […]
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 can create new markets and improve public health; to analyse global best practices in rice VCM and how Sri Lanka can adapt them and […]
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s main (Maha) season rice harvest is projected at 2.56 million metric tonnes, based on cultivation up to December 2024, including re-cultivation after crop damage, the Department of Agriculture has said. Farmers are estimated to have cultivated at least 806,453 hectares or 93 percent of the target of 868,427 and estimated gross […]
ECONOMYNEXT – Mills in Sri Lanka’s Marandhagahamulla, a key rice trading centre, are getting new paddy from the Maha (main) harvest which will be released to consumers in the next few days, an industry official said. After torrential rains delayed harvests and drying initially, paddy is now being harvested in several districts. “After the rains […]
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s rice crisis, where prices have soared and red rice disappeared from shelves due to price controls ahead of the New Year, was due to wrong government data, Minister Nalinda Jayatissa said. “The actual problem is that there is no reliable data on the rice requirement of the country, how much is […]
These millers are an oligopoly mostly in the North Central province (NCP) who quite readily advance money to the farmers at the time of land preparation on an undertaking given that all or a sizeable portion of their harvest will be given to them at a price determined by them. Paddy cultivation in the country […]
By Marlon Fernandopulle Driven by the passion for research and the thirst for innovation, a Sri Lankan rice scientist through a blend of curiosity, dedication and unwavering commitment spent hours in the humid and scorching rice fields in Dambulla and the laboratories to finally come up with what most of us relish today as tasty, […]
