This means that Sri Lanka is now exposed to the upward movement of world sugar prices. Crops such as cowpea, maize, gingelly, chillies, potatoes, onions, cucumber, water melon and medicinal herbs, etc ...

In Sri Lanka, undernutrition among mothers and children under five, especially those living on plantations, remains a chronic development issue. Poor dietary practices result from high-priced ...

The career of the colonial politician is short & ends the acclamation of words for power; as soon as our bluff is called we are lost. Politics for us are a do-or-die, once-for-all charge. Once we are ...

Sri Lanka's plantation workers are a long-marginalized group who frequently live in dire poverty, but they can swing elections by voting as a bloc. Mahohari and her family are descended from ...

This means that for a daily-wage plantation worker family, roti and black tea remain a luxury. The drop in import prices of sugar and wheat in particular ... insurance and freight basis price per kilo ...