December 22, 2023
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      On October 2019, Sri Lanka in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme embraced the Colombo Declaration under the title Nitrogen for Life, adopted by 15 member states, to create roadmaps that will halve nitrogen waste by 2030. This was further reaffirmed when Sri Lanka with the support of the International Nitrogen […]

December 5, 2022
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      COLOMBO, 5 December 2022 – The United States officially handed over 9,300 tonnes of urea fertilizer to the Ministry of Agriculture to distribute to more than 193,000 smallholder paddy farmers in Jaffna, Mullaitivu, Mannar, Vavuniya, Anuradhapura, Trincomalee, Batticaloa, and Monaragala districts. The fertilizer, procured by FAO with funding from the U.S. Agency […]

November 16, 2022
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      Distribution to smallholder paddy farmers in four districts to commence this week COLOMBO, 15 November 2022 – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) handed over 780.1 MT of Urea procured through the UN Central Emergency Relief Fund (UN-CERF) to the Ministry of Agriculture today. 15,619 farmers cultivating paddy […]


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