There is an abundance of historical data available on the extent of land cultivation and the amount of paddy harvested based on well-established yields per unit area. Separate sets of statistics cover ...

There is reason to believe that Chandrabanu did not return to Malaya but ended up in Jaffna. Chandrabanu’s coins have been found in the north and there are place names such as Chavakaccheri in Jaffna ...

That is the gospel according to the Right. The fact of the matter is that based on annual production and consumption estimates, Sri Lanka has achieved self-sufficiency in rice, and this has been so ...

led by Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike scored heavily due to the Jaffna farmers’ support for her import restrictions on food items grown in the Jaffna peninsula. Since then, especially after the ...

Nigeria’s rice production has declined to 8.3 million tonnes for the 2024/2025 cycle, down from 8.9 million tonnes the previous year despite ongoing government efforts to boost agricultural output.

However, the timing, extent, and process of deforestation and its relationship with the intensification of rice cultivation remain controversial. Here, four representative archaeological sites ranging ...

The production of aromatic rice has nearly doubled in Bangladesh over the past seven years, with farmers showing interest in growing the grain in order to profit from its higher prices compared to ...

Kandeepan is from Jaffna, Sri Lanka's northern-most urban centre on the western edge of the triangular peninsula that grasps out at India. In the early '80s, Jaffna had been the second-most populous ...

From Jambukola it took seven days to get to Tamralipti, a port at the mouth of the Ganges. Jambukola therefore had to be in the Jaffna peninsula. Up to the end of the 17th century, Jaffna was an ...

The greater part of Jaffna peninsula was under LTTE control then. This state of affairs came in for a rude shock when an unknown person lobbed a bomb into the vehicle driven by Kittu. The incident ...