With large scale development across the country, many coconut estates are up for grabs and partitioned into small blocks mostly for housing purposes as this picture taken in Kurunegala shows, with ...

Sri Lanka’s coconut harvest will be low until the end of February 2025 and coconut prices are likely to remain high, Director of the Coconut Research Institute (CRI) Dr. N. S. Aratchige has said.Dr.

Climate change has invariably taken its toll on the country’s coconut cultivation considerably and thus, the growers are calling for drought and temperature resistant coconut plants as an urgent need.

More than 280,000 people, including farmer families, who are suffering due to the drought in five districts Puttalam, Kurunegala, Mannar, Anuradhapura, and Polonnaruwa, will not be able to expect ...

The coconut industry faced both natural and politically made disasters for the past four years and this has led to the present crisis in the industry, Ceylon Chamber of Coconut Development President ...

The diocesan territory stretches over a land area of 4,812.8 square kilometers and includes Kurunegala in North Western Province. About 85% of this diocese is rural and it is the commercial center of ...

Reputed for its core coconut plantation business yielding around 15 million nuts per year, Kurunegala Plantations Limited (KPL), a fully owned government company, is also well known for its intercrops ...

Toque monkeys, monkeys, and giant squirrels had destroyed nearly 200 million coconuts by the end of last year, the Hector Kobbekaduwa Agricultural Research and Training Institute said. The information ...