Replanting is a daunting task after Ditwah flooded crops across 535,000 hectares (1.3 million acres), while government data ...

Sri Lankan farmers face severe challenges as Cyclone Ditwah devastates rice fields, sweeping away crops and leaving hundreds of thousands of hectares damaged. The cyclone displaced thousands, ...

Thousands of farmers have been taking to the streets of Sri Lanka for weeks to protest a ban on imports of chemical fertilizer. The Sri Lankan government wants to move towards 100% organic agriculture ...

AGBOPURA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) – W.M. Seneviratne sat watching a mechanised harvester slice through the jade green fields around him in eastern Sri Lanka’s Agbopura village one recent morning, aware ...

Speaking at a May Day rally in Dehiattakandiya, a remote rural town, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse claimed that his government had helped farmers to “stand on their own feet”. He claimed: “We ...

Karunawathie isn't hungry for breakfast. She rarely is these days, but she forces herself to choke down a few bites of rice, dried fish and a simple coconut mix. The doctors say it's better to have ...

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka wants farmers to plant more rice as part of plans to avert a severe food shortage, a top official said on Tuesday, as experts warned of a 50% drop in production that ...

Mohammed Ismail Mohideen stood horrified as untimely torrential rain submerged and destroyed rice paddy in his three-acre field at the end of November in Sri Lanka. “Rains continuously poured for up ...

Sri Lanka’s smallholder farmers are faced with increasing risks related to the impacts of climate change, which threaten their agricultural yields and livelihoods. Risk has always been a factor for ...

A local magistrate in Sri Lanka granted bail last Tuesday for 21 farmers who have been imprisoned on remand for more than a month after confronting a minister over broken promises on the Deduru Oya ...

Like most mothers, Preethi Sewvandhi is careful when choosing the produce she feeds her three children in an era when farmers increasingly rely on pesticides to boost their crops — even in idyllic ...