Sri Lanka's cabinet has approved a proposal to import coconut kernels and dried coconut pieces with coconut (non-copra) husks equivalent to 200 million coconuts for coconut oil production ...

Accordingly, the Department of Agriculture, Coconut Research Institute, Coconut Development Authority, Plant Quarantine Service and Sri Lanka Standards Institution jointly have prepared and submitted ...

It has been nearly four months since President Dissanayake was elected into power. His parliamentary colleagues took over ...

Sri Lanka's coconut auction was conducted at a fixed price of 140,000 rupees for a thousand nuts, for the second week on January 30, after the average price 145,687 on January 09, official data show.

“Sri Lanka’s current national coconut output is around 1.5 billion nuts. The Coconut Research Institute has revealed that this year there would be a 10 percent drop in production and that would ...

The Ceylon Chamber of Coconut Industries (CCCI), the umbrella organisation for Sri Lanka’s coconut industry ... has forecast a production shortfall exceeding 200 million nuts in the first ...

Rice shortages in Sri Lanka have disrupted the Hindu Thai Pongal celebrations ... Preparing Pongal, a dish of red rice and coconut, is the core ritual of the festivities. However, the island nation's ...

President of the Coconut ... coconut production to 4.5 billion nuts in the long term while also focusing on the import of low value coconut products to produce value added coconut products for ...

Buddhi Marambe said financial support from the Government is paramount to increase coconut production to at least 4.5 billion ... “The coconut industry in Sri Lanka is in a crisis. The annual ...