President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who also holds the Finance portfolio, has rescinded a decision to allow the import of selected spices for re-export. Government sources said that...
By Ifham Nizam Plans are underway to launch a programme to provide nearly 5,000 male chicks discarded monthly from several state-owned farms to the unemployed youth...
Minister of Agriculture Mahinda Aamaraweera handed over a sapling to Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena to plant at the Temple trees at the auspicious time of dawning...
TSP to be given free of charge By Ifham Nizam The government has decided to provide during the Yala season, TSP fertiliser free of charge to...
By Ifham Nizam The government paid the majority of the public servants their last salary –December- from Rs. 10.5 bn profit of the Department of Agrarian...
by PRIYAN DE SILVA Minister of Agriculture, Wildlife and Forest Resources Conservation, Mahinda Amaraweera, has said the government should purchase the Maha paddy harvest from...
By Shamindra Ferdinando A steady stream of press releases, issued during 2022, by Colombo-based diplomatic missions, UN and its agencies, and those representing INGOs, depicted a...
By Ifham Nizam The Department of Weights and Measures has launched a prorgamme to prevent the use of substandard weighing machines. The Agriculture, Wildlife and Forest...