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Sri Lanka imports 600,000 metric tonnes of substandard rice due to flawed chemical fertiliser ban: Minister

Highlights Poisonous rice has been imported due to flawed decision of previous government Last year, Gotabaya Rajapaksa put a blanket ban on imports of chemical fertilizers Sri Lanka is going through its worst economic crisis since its independence in 1948 Sri Lanka economic crisis : Lanka's Agricultural Minister Mahinda Amaraweera informed Parliament on Thursday that the cash-strapped country had to …

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Sri Lanka seeks $55 million loan from India for buying fertiliser

Highlights India has agreed to provide the USD 55 million loan through the Export-Import Bank of India Lanka is facing a 50% crop loss due to ex-President Gotabaya's decision to ban chemical fertiliser Sri Lanka is going through the worst economic crisis since its independence from Britain in 1945 Sri Lanka has sought a $55 million loan from India for …

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India assures Sri Lanka of fertiliser supplies to avoid food shortages

Highlights India assured Sri Lanka of fertiliser supplies to help debt-ridden country avert food shortages Food shortage is caused by crop losses and exacerbated by the worst economic crisis in Sri Lanka President Rajapaksa said PM Modi had assured him of fertiliser supplies for next cultivation season India has assured Sri Lanka of fertiliser supplies to help the debt-ridden country …

Sri Lanka faces ‘man-made’ food crisis as farmers stop planting

Once self-sufficient nation reels from fall-out of ill-conceived shift to organic agriculture, compounded by fuel shortages. “It’s a total loss,” the father of five said in mid-April, standing in a field of stunted banana trees in Sri Lanka’s southern Hambantota district. “There will be a very hard period in the coming few months in terms of the food aspect,” said …

Sri Lanka receives first consignment of non-harmful Nano Nitrogen liquid fertiliser from India to boost paddy, maize cultivation

Sri Lanka has received the first consignment of 3.1 million litres high quality non-harmful Nano Nitrogen liquid fertiliser from India to help the island nation's Eastern province in the cultivation of maize and paddy, country's Agriculture Secretary Prof Udith Jayasinghe said on Wednesday. The import of Nano Nitrogen liquid fertiliser came months after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s decision in May to …

Sri Lanka reverses organic farming drive as tea suffers

Government backs down from ambitious plans to become the world’s first completely organic farming nation, reversing ban on fertiliser imports. Sri Lanka has backed down from its ambitious plans to become the world’s first completely organic farming nation, reversing a ban on imports of chemical fertiliser. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had imposed a total ban on agrochemicals in May, saying he …