CLIMATE RISK COUNTRY PROFILE: SRI LANKA
eyesrilanka.com Climate change is a major risk to good development outcomes, and the World Bank Group is committed to playing an important role in helping countries integrate climate action into...
Read More
eyesrilanka.com Climate change is a major risk to good development outcomes, and the World Bank Group is committed to playing an important role in helping countries integrate climate action into...
Read More
Dr. Parakrama Waidyanatha – island.lk The government has, at last, yielded to the unceasing demand of farmers for chemical fertilisers over the last several months, by its recent gazette notification,...
Read More
By Chandrasena Maliyadde – island.lk The government has decided to convert the entire agriculture production from non-organic into organic. The President has declared that Sri Lanka is the first country...
Read More
Kamanthi Wickramasinghe – DAILYMIRROR 2021 Blue Planet Prize Laureate Prof. Mohan Munasinghe The pandemic is just one shorter term problem among many others like poverty, inequality, environmental degradation and conflictsExtreme...
Read More
lankabusinessonline.com I.D. Gooneratne – Former Director of J.E.D.B,Regional Agricultural advisor to 20 tea estates,Consultant, functioned as Deputy Director, Extension Services of the TRI,Advisor, Tea Manufacturing, John Keells Ltd for 6...
Read More
By Prof. Saman K. Herath – sundayobserver.lk It is apparent that world agriculture has significantly changed during the last six to seven decades. This change is basically due to the...
Read More
By Upatissa Pethiyagoda – www.colombotelegraph.com A recent announcement by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, at some public meeting, it is reported, announced that all imports of agrochemicals/ fertilizers(?) will be banned and...
Read More
By Kamanthi Wickramasinghe – dailymirror.lk The old Sinhala adage, Mada sodagath kala goviya rajakamatath sudusui (when the mud is washed off, the farmer is fit to serve as king) has...
Read More
by Professor W. A. J. M. De Costa Senior Professor and Chair of Crop Science Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agriculture University of Peradeniya Why use fertiliser on crops?...
Read More
by Raj Gonsalkorale – www.slguardian.org The President and the government is urged to at least postpone the decision made to ban the import of inorganic fertiliser at least for one...
Read More
