Sri Lanka rubber growers hit by plunging prices
Apr 17, 2014 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s rubber growers are being hit by falling world prices with production volumes also dropping due to a drought within …
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Sri Lanka tea production drops 10-pct in February
Mar 31, 2014 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s tea production has dropped 10 percent to 22.4 million kilograms in February 2014 from a year earlier, and the …
Sri Lanka to curb use of weedicide linked to killer kidney disease: report
Mar 24, 2014 (LBO) – A widely used weedicide linked to a killer kidney disease in Sri Lanka will only be curbed in areas where the disease is prevalent, …
Sri Lanka’s Watawala Plantations ends management deal
Mar 18, 2014 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Watawala Plantations Plc said a management agreement with Estate Management Services (Pvt) Ltd, its key …
Sri Lanka killer kidney disease linked to Monsanto weedicide, phosphate fertilizer: study
Mar 02, 2014 (LBO) – A herbicide developed by US-based Monsanto and contaminated fertilizer may be behind an epidemic of mystery kidney disease in Sri …
Sri Lanka spice exports up 40-pct
Dec 17, 2013 (LBO) – Export revenues of spices from Sri Lanka have risen 40 percent from a year earlier to 274 million US dollars in the first 10 months …
Sri Lanka avoids EU fishing sanctions
Nov 26, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has been named as a country that made progress over curbing illegal fishing by the European Commission, allowing the …
Sri Lanka poultry group in profits amid revenue drop
Nov 14, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Ceylon Grain Elevators group, which has operations in feed-milling said it returned to profits in the September …
Sri Lanka’s Tess Agro in Rs117mn cash call
Sept 18, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Tess Agro, a fish exporter has made a 117 million rupee cash call to finance a European marketing arm and a …
Sri Lanka fish exporter starts EU marketing unit
Sept 16, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka-based Tess Agro Plc, an exporter of sea fish said it had set up a marketing unit in Belgium to gain direct access to the …
Sri Lanka plantations facing labour shortages
Sept 14, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s large plantations, especially those growing tea, are facing labour shortages, with young people moving out to …
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 …
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 …