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Sri Lanka to supply rice to the world
Sri Lanka is exploring the possibility of supplying nutritional food including rice to the World Food Programme (WFP) and emerging markets. The aim is to use the country’s excess food production for ...
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Revolutionising Sri Lanka’s rice industry through Value Chain Management
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 ...
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ASIA/SRI LANKA - A priest from Colombo: in the face of rice shortage, "the government should adopt measures in the interest of the poor"
Last December, the Sri Lankan government imported a total of 70,000 tons of rice from India to address what the authorities called an "artificial shortage" and agreed to take action against the main ...
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Sri Lanka calls for five-minute surveys to identify crop-raiding animals
In December 2024, Sri Lanka’s newly appointed minister of agriculture K. D. Lalkantha told the Parliament that farmers should ...
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Red or white, parboiled the best for low GI
The more polished the rice grain the more unhealthy warns Prof. Sagarika Ekanayake, who gives full marks for the Sri Lankan staple meal as long as it is balanced. Kumudini Hettiarachchi reports As ...