Sri Lanka has lifted a ban on chemical fertilizer imports after farmers' protests, forecasts of severe food shortages and worries about the island's crucial tea exports. Finance Minister Basil ...

Sri Lanka is paying some foreign debts with tea, rather than cash. But an abrupt ban on chemical fertilizers has hurt crop yields, and tea pickers are losing hours and wages as food prices double. NPR ...

COLOMBO, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's ambitious plan to aggressively promote organic farming by banning imports of chemical fertilizers could reduce tea yields by as much as 40% and cripple the $1.5 ...

The economically troubled country banned chemical fertilizers without preparing farmers, prompting a surge in food prices and worries about shortages. By Aanya Wipulasena and Mujib Mashal RATNAPURA, ...

14 July 2004 SRI LANKA (Daily News) -- Iran has pledged to sign an agreement with Sri Lanka to provide fertilizer at concessionary rates. This firm assurance was made by Iranian Ambassador Begnam ...

GALENBINDUNUWEWA, Sri Lanka—For more than half a century, Pahatha Mellange Jayaappu has tilled the field on his modest farm in Sri Lanka’s agricultural heartland, unswayed by recurrent political and ...

Ban on chemical fertilisers imposed in April Farmers took to the streets demanding policy change Bad weather, lack of fertiliser hit yields, hiked prices COLOMBO, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka rowed ...