Agriculture in Sri Lanka is at a deadlock, and for the smallholder farmers, who constitute the backbone of the nation’s food ...

W. Dharmasena, a rice farmer from Alawwa in northwestern Sri Lanka. Peafowls, once rare in the area, have recently become a major threat to paddy fields. In nearby villages, houses need to be ...

LLM contributor Neeta Lal finds that if you’re looking for top-tier sustainable luxury in a natural setting, there’s no ...

The National New Paddy Harvest Festival (Aluth Sahal Mangalya), a traditional annual ceremony of offering the first portion ...

Despite being highly vulnerable to climate risk, Sri Lanka is slow to tap into climate ... lands are now disappearing, with 43 % of paddy fields abandoned as irrigation sources fail, the research ...