In a dazzling chapter for Sri Lanka’s scientific community, 210 previously undocumented plant species have now been formally ...

We have little say about restrictions being imposed on us from abroad. Somehow, we have to stand on our feet. In the distant ...

For context, the average farm size is approximately 466 acres in the US, 202 acres in Brazil, 370 acres in Russia, and a staggering 7,000 acres in Australia. These countries also host extraordinarily ...

When the government of Sri Lanka published the  National Red List of threatened plants in 2020, my eyebrows shot up. We’ve ...

As one of the most diverse countries in Asia, Sri Lanka has everything from white sandy beaches to wildlife and you can escape to this ...

Have you ever seen a slender bird dressed in green, flying silently through the trees? And wandered who that green beauty was ...

Bloomington Ill. – Darci Webber, Natural Resources, Environment, and Energy Educator for McLean, Livingston, and Woodford Counties, recently returned from a trip to Sri Lanka with the University of ...

Fruits, vegetables, yams and nuts are a major source of income to the rural economy of Sri Lanka. Except for the banana sub-sector, all the sub-sectors have declined in export earnings compared with ...

Research related to the agricultural sector has confirmed that about 270,000 tons of Sri Lanka’s annual vegetable and fruit production is wasted before reaching the end consumer. This reveals that the ...

Sri Lanka's main elephant orphanage marked its 50th anniversary Sunday with a fruit feast for the 68 jumbos at the showpiece centre, reputedly the world's first care home for destitute pachyderms.

Sri Lanka's main elephant orphanage marked its 50th anniversary Sunday with a feast of fruit for the 68 jumbos at the showpiece center, reputedly the world's first care home for destitute ...

KIST announced its partnership with the Scaling Up Nutrition People’s Forum (SUNPF) for Sri Lanka’s first-ever Fruit Festival, taking place on the 21st and 22nd of February 2025 at the Colombo ...