Sri Lankan paddy farmers have been protesting to demand guaranteed crop prices and protection of their livelihood amid ...

Rita] Harvesting rice by hand requires skill ... But on the street people say paddy rice versus wild rice. To the trained eye or to somebody who's used to eating wild rice, you can just tell ...

The JVP-led NPP government finds itself in an unenviable position. Its learning curve is disconcertingly steep. Sri Lankans are always in a hurry; patience cannot be considered one of their virtues, ...

NOBEOKA, Miyazaki Prefecture--Robotics took over the task of growing rice plants in a paddy ... to make its debut shortly, the harvesting process at another paddy will be accomplished by a robotic ...

The heavy downpours in the North, North-Central, and Eastern provinces throughout the week disrupted the ongoing paddy ...

Cabinet Spokesman Health and Media Minister Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa stated that the Government has no intention of removing the price controls ...

Mills in Sri Lanka's Marandhagahamulla, a key rice trading centre, are getting new paddy from the Maha (main) harvest which ...

Market watchers cite poor stock, less procurement from the local market, and delays in import decisions created the scope for market manipulation amid lax monitoring of the market ...

Enclosed by mesh fences and walls sits a lone rice paddy stretching out across 1,100 ... yielded a 440-kilogram harvest on Sept. 5. This is far from the end of the project’s journey, but it ...

Rajan Philips There is an abundance of historical data available on the extent of land cultivation and the amount of paddy ...

MADURAI: The retail price of fine varieties of rice, which are being sold at Rs 60 to Rs 70 per kg, may come down by at least ...