Agriculture

Sri Lanka, India talks to end poaching issue

Mar 15, 2011 (LBO) - Sri Lanka is to send a team of officials to India for talks on ending poaching by Indian fishermen in the island's northern waters, …

Sri Lanka wards off tuna quota: minister

Mar 16, 2011 (LBO) - Sri Lanka has prevented efforts to restrict her tuna quota in the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC), fisheries minister Rajitha …

Sri Lanka tea crops recover

Mar 11, 2011 (LBO) - Tea harvests from Sri Lanka's main plantations areas have improved following a slump caused by bad weather which affected the first …

Sri Lanka may temporarily allow maize imports

Mar 11, 2010 (LBO) - Sri Lanka may temporarily lift a 35 percent import tax on maize to prevent prices going higher and hurting the island's poultry industry …

Sri Lanka tea exporter presses for imports for blending

Mar 09, 2011 (LBO) - Finlays Colombo has urged Sri Lankan authorities to allow more tea imports for blending saying it could lose market share by not catering …

Sri Lanka tea quality season hit by bad weather

Feb 25, 2011 (LBO) - Bad weather has disrupted the Sri Lankan tea industry's 'Western quality season' when teas grown on the western slopes of the island's …

Sri Lanka looks for working group to iron out fishery poaching

Feb 22, 2011 (LBO) - Sri Lanka is looking to begin talks through a joint working group with India to find a long term solution to fishery poaching in Sri …

Sri Lanka Balangoda Plantations profit, management fee up sharply

Feb 21, 2011 (LBO) - High commodity prices helped Sri Lanka's Balangoda Plantations managed by the Stassen group turn a profit in the December 2010 quarter …

Sri Lanka reservoirs may need larger sluice gates, canals

Feb 14, 2011 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's reservoirs including those planned or under construction may have to be re-designed with larger spill gates and canals to …

Sri Lanka rubber producer warns boom unlikely to last

Feb 11, 2011 (LBO) - The boom in rubber prices, that helped prop up profits at Sri Lanka's Kelani Valley Plantations, is unlikely to last, its chairman Mohan …

Sri Lanka tea export earnings exceed Kenya’s

Feb 03, 2011 (LBO) - Sri Lanka earned a record 1. online pharmacy buy abilify with best prices today in the USA online pharmacy buy antabuse with best prices …

Sri Lanka Watawala December quarter profit up marginally

Jan 31, 2011 (LBO) - Sri Lanka Watawala Plantations December 2010 quarter profit rose three percent to 189 million rupees from a year ago with group sales …

Sri Lanka poultry firm net up five fold in Dec

Jan 27, 2011 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's Bairaha Farms, a poultry breeder and processor said net profits for the December 2010 quarter rose 546 percent to 163 million …

Sri Lanka Horana Plantation profits up 80-pct in Dec

Jan 25, 2010 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's Horana Plantations, which grows tea and rubber said profits in the December 2010 quarter grew 80 percent to 135 million …

Sri Lanka tea output hits record high in 2010

January 22, 2011 (AFP) - Sri Lanka, one of the world's biggest producers of black tea, reported Saturday that output hit a record high in 2010, helped by good …

Sri Lanka to open rice flour factory with state backing

Jan 20, 2011 (LBO) - Sri Lanka is opening a rice flour factory with a loan from a state bank re-financed by the central bank, the monetary authority said. buy …

Sri Lanka warns of high food prices after floods

January 17, 2011 (AFP) - Sri Lanka warned Monday that food prices could shoot up after devastating floods in the north and east of the country destroyed rice …

Sri Lanka mine fears as floods recede

January 16, 2011 (AFP) - Unexploded mines planted during Sri Lanka's Tamil separatist war may have shifted during recent floods, officials said Sunday, as …

Floods hit harvest festival in Sri Lanka former war zone inundated

BATTICALOA, January 15, 2011 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's minority Tamils would normally celebrate their annual harvest festival Saturday, but instead they are …

Sri Lanka allows duty free import of milch cows, dairy equipment

Jan 06, 2010 (LBO) - Sri Lanka is lifting all import levies on high yielding milk cows and diary equipment to promote domestic production of milk and is also …