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Recent trends and developments in government expenditure on agriculture and irrigation.
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Daily Mirror
April tea exports expand marginally by 1.3% YoY
In April 2024, tea exports totaled 16.38 million Kgs, marking a slight increase of 0.21 million Kgs from April 2023. Growth was ob...
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Daily Mirror
Tensions in Gulf could hurt Ceylon Tea cuppa: Indu...
The escalating tensions in the Middle East are raising serious concerns among stakeholders in the Ceylon Tea industry, given that over half of the nation's tea is exported to the region. The fallout from the recent Red Sea attack has alr...
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Ceylon Today
$400M allocated for local fertiliser production
The Government decided to use the sum of USD 400 million allocated to import chemical fertilisers to produce organic fertilisers locally. Accordingly, funds will be allotted to build equipment needed for manufacturing fertiliser and tasked t...
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Insight on Agriculture and Irrigation
Sri Lanka’s Economic Reliance on Chemica...
In August 2021, the Sri Lanka g...
Expenditure on the Agriculture & Irrigat...
Has the Government Fulfilled its Policy...
The National Policy Framework: Vistas...
Have Governments Fulfilled their Agricul...
Have consecut...
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Sri Lanka Met 33 IMF Commitments and failed 8 by e...
Sri Lanka had verifiably met 33 of the trackable programme commitments of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme as at the end of June 2023 but had failed eight, according to the ‘IMF Tracker', an online tool lau...
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The Cost of a Kevili Table in 2024
The cost of assorting a traditional “kevili” table for the Sinhala and Tamil New Year has gone down in 2024 compared to 2023 but remains more than twice as high as it was in 2019.
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Sri Lanka's No. 1 export to the US faces a potenti...
On 2 April, US President Donald Trump imposed a 44 percent tariff on Sri Lankan exports to the United States. With apparel comprising 64 percent of these exports—valued at nearly USD 1.8 billion in 2023—Sri Lanka’s apparel...
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