Coconut prices have risen 12.9 percent over the past three weeks

"The prices are up because or production costs are high. That's why we can't compete with imports."

To attract youth to agriculture and to introduce them to new agricultural technology,

"They will have to be fed, and food will have to be supplied to a strong middle class in those regions."

Wholesale prices were 95 to 110 rupees for large nuts and 85 to 90 rupees for small nuts

RPCs are already brought under Finance Ministry by President Wickremesinghe

Pulses comprise only 8 percent of Sri Lanka’s per capita protein supply, the institute said.

15,000 farmers from Anuradhapura will benefit in the first phase

"It’s gazetted. Either they do it or we take RPCs back."

Plantation workers have been protesting for higher wages since 2018