By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's fragile economic recovery will be delayed as Cyclone Ditwah's ...

Officials estimate the damage runs into billions of dollars, a headache for the island nation just recovering from an ...

Russia has dispatched 35 tonnes of humanitarian aid to Sri Lanka following the devastation caused by Cyclone Ditwah. The ...

The Sri Lankan government is encouraging farmers to replant rice paddies affected by recent floods.

India is also expected to supply other agricultural commodities such as sugar and wheat to Sri Lanka in the coming months. (Representational images) India has commenced shipment of around 40,000 tonne ...

Indian traders have started loading 40,000 tonnes of rice for prompt shipment to Sri Lanka in the first major food aid since Colombo secured credit line from New Delhi, two officials told Reuters on ...

The ideological Left and Right in Sri Lanka have staked out their positions on the country’s perennial rice crisis. In the view of the ideological Left, the country’s food crisis including the recent ...

Nallathambi Mahendran walks through his 1.6 hectares of emerald green paddy fields in northern Sri Lanka's Kilinochchi district, indicating the height the plants should have reached by now. They are ...

Sri Lanka’s pride has taken a beating because it has gone to the extent of obtaining loans from Bangladesh and importing rice from Myanmar The Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) has paid 3.05 billion ...

Sri Lanka economic crisis: Lanka's Agricultural Minister Mahinda Amaraweera informed Parliament on Thursday that the cash-strapped country had to import nearly 600,000 metric tonnes of substandard and ...

What is all the controversy about? Social media was abuzz over a video claiming that Lanka Sathosa was responsible for the sale and distribution of a variety of rice dubbed ‘plastic rice’. The viral ...

Myanmar has donated 9.2 tonnes of medicines, medical supplies and personal care items to Sri Lanka following severe floods ...