Sri Lanka’s Horana Plantations moves into oil palm
Sep 12, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Horana Plantations Plc, said it was moving into oil palm cultivation by initially planting 300 hectares of the …
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Sri Lanka rubber exporter hit by falling prices
Sep 09, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Eastern Merchants, a rubber export firm said it lost 17 million rupees in the year to March 2013, from a profit of …
Sri Lanka offered hi-tec dairy farm by Dutch firm
Sept 06, 2013 (LBO) – A Netherlands based company has offered to set up a hi-tec dairy farm with processing facilities with high yield milch cows, …
New contamination scare hits New Zealand dairy industry
WELLINGTON, August 19, 2013 (AFP) – A new contamination scare hit New Zealand’s multi-billion dollar dairy industry on Monday after it was revealed …
Sri Lanka’s Balangoda Plantations profits plunge 56-pct
Aug 14, 2013 (LBO) – Balangoda Plantations Plc, a tea farming company in Sri Lanka’s Stassen group said profits fell 56 percent to 45.7 million …
Sri Lanka northern agri-show draw farmers
Aug 13, 2013 (LBO) – Large number of farmers in Sri Lanka’s former war zones in the north had visited an agri-business show where modern …
Sri Lanka to expand spice growing areas
Aug 10, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is planning to expand spice cultivation to new areas which will increase production and export especially of pepper and …
Sri Lanka’s Talawakale Tea profits in the red
Aug 06, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Talawakele Tea Estates Plc said it made a loss of 3.0 million rupees in the June 2013 quarter down from a profit …
Sri Lanka suspends New Zealand milk imports
Aug 06, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has suspended imports of all milk imports from New Zealand and asked Fonterra brands to withdraw any products containing …
Sri Lanka Watawala Plantations stake upped by parent
August 02, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Watawala Plantations Plc, which farms tea, rubber and oil palm said its parent Estate Management Services has …
Sri Lanka urban waste to be made into fertilizer: IWMI
July 26, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka-based International Water Management Institute (IWMI) said it is partnering with island’s environmental authority …
Sri Lanka tea production down in June
July 23, 2013 (LBO) – Tea production was down 4.29 percent to 24.69 million kilograms in June 2013 from a year earlier, Sri Lanka Tea Board data showed, …
Sri Lanka’s northern agri-biz fair set to go
July 18, 2013 (LBO) – An agri business fair in Killinochchi, a former war zone in the northern Sri Lanka is ready to open on July 26 with all stalls …
Sri Lanka tea promoted at US food fair
July 16, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s ‘Ceylon Tea’ has been showcased at a specialty food fair in the in the US city of New York, the …
Sri Lanka tea crop hit by heavy rains
July 09, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s tea crop has been hit badly by heavy rain in June with some estates seeing production falling to less than half …
Sri Lanka grows rubber in new areas
July 09, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has expanded rubber cultivation into the non-traditional dryer regions of the island™s Eastern and Northern regions …
Sri Lanka state dairy firm financed by HSBC
July 04, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s state-run Milco (Pvt) Ltd, a dairy products firm, is modernizing it factories with a 5.5 billion rupee credit …
Sri Lanka to farm Asian sea bass
July 01, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has approved a 2.5 million US dollar project to farm Barramundi or Asian Sea Bass off the coast of Trincomalee in North …
Sri Lanka’s Elpitiya Plantations boost tea yields, diversifies crop
June 21, 2013 (LBO) – Elpitiya Plantations Plc, a unit of Sri Lanka’s Aitken Spence group said it had boosted tea yields and diversified into …
Sri Lanka former war-zone agri produce on show
June 19, 2013 (LBO) – Farmers in Sri Lanka’s former war zones in the North and East are cultivating more land but need modern technology to improve …