Realistic or just Rhetoric? The Ban on Chemical Fertilizer

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Realistic or just Rhetoric? The Ban on Chemical Fertilizer
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Published on Groundviews  In early 2021, a survey conducted by the International Food Policy Research Institute, found that farmers faced food insecurity as a result of the measures that had been put into place to curb the spread of Covid-19. Of...
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Crucial Farmer Opinion on Synthetic Fertilizer Ban Warns of 50 percent Reduction in Harvest
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Published on CounterPoint  More than three quarters of farmers who took part in a country wide telephone survey last month said they currently use synthetic fertilizer to cultivate.  Their prediction that their harvest will reduce by almost half if they...
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Farmers Against Haphazard Rush to Switch to Organic Fertiliser
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Published on DailyFT First-of-its-kind survey by Verité Research reveals pulse of farmers on fertiliser issue Farmers supportive of Govt. vision to move to organic agriculture, but almost 80% feel shift would require more than a year  Urge properly phased-out process...
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Opportunities to Protect Public Interest in Public Infrastructure: A Review of Regulatory Frameworks in Sri Lanka.
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Investment into infrastructure is vital for development. However, in the context of weak governance, public investment into large and complex infrastructure can become a fertile ground for corruption and results in unsustainable, costly, and poor-quality infrastructure that fails to meet...
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පොදු යටිතල පහසුකම් තුළ මහජන සුබසිද්ධිය සුරැකීමට ඇති අවස්ථා: ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ නියාමන රාමු පිළිබඳ සමාලෝචනයක්
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යටිතලපහසුකම් සඳහා කරන ආයෝජනයන් රටක සංවර්ධනයට අතිශයින් වැදගත් වේ. කෙසේ වෙතත් දුර්වල පාලනයක් පවතින සන්දර්භයක් තුළ මහා පරිමාණ සහ සංකීර්ණ යටිතලපහසුකම් සංවර්ධන ව්‍යපෘති දුෂණයන්ට ඉතා හිතකර පසුබිමක් බවට පත්විය හැකි අතරම අපේක්ෂිත අරමුණු සාක්ෂාත් කරගැනීමට අපොහොසත් වන අධික පිරිවැයක් සහිත,...
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அரச உட்கட்டமைப்பு வசதிகள் மீது பொதுமக்களுக்குரிய நலன்களை பாதுகாப்பதற்கான வாய்ப்புக்கள்: இலங்கையின் ஒழுங்கு முறைச்சட்டகங்கள் பற்றிய மீளாய்வு
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உட்கட்டமைப்பில் முதலீடு செய்வது அபிவிருத்திக்கு இன்றியமையாதது. எவ்வாறாயினும், பலவீனமான ஆளுகையின் பின்னணியில், பெரிய மற்றும் பல்கூட்டு உட்கட்டமைப்பிற்கான அரச முதலீடு ஊழலுக்கான வளமான களமாக மாறி, விளைவாக நீடுறுதியல்லாத, செலவுகூடிய மற்றும் குறைதரமான உள்கட்டமைப்பை ஏற்படுத்துவதோடு உத்தேசித்த நோக்கங்களை நிறைவேற்றத் தவறிவிடுகிறது. (more…)
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W(h)ither Environmental Governance: Limited Access to Information Undermines Meaningful Participation in Development Projects
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There is a surge in public agitation against environmental destruction caused by ongoing development projects in Sri Lanka. The surfacing of environmental issues after construction has commenced is highly problematic for two reasons. First, the construction may have already caused...
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Invest in skills today to thrive tomorrow
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Taken from - DailyFT Image courtesy - DailyFT By Zahra Ansary July 15th is World Youth Skills Day, one of the UN International days of observance which was initiated by none than Sri Lanka. Established in November 2014, the representative...
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කොරෝනා වසංගතය සමාජ ව්‍යසනයක් කිරීමට දායක වන තක්කඩි මාධ්‍යකරණය හෙළා දකිමු!
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මුල් ලිපිය: රාවය සම්පාදනය: නාලක ගුණවර්ධන ටී බී ඉලංගරත්න සූරීන්ගේ විලම්බීත, තිලක, තිලක හා තිලකා කියන තුන් ඈඳුතු නවකථා මාලාවේ දෙවැනි පොතේ අප කියවන්නේ රජයේ ලිපිකරු තිලකගේ තරුණ විය ගැන. තිලකගේ බෝඩින් සගයන් අතර පත්තර වාර්තාකරුවකු ද සිටියා. මට මතක...
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Govt. exceeds borrowing limits by Rs 120 bn
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Taken from - news1st COLOMBO (News1st) : The government has exceeded its legal borrowing limits for the first quarter of 2020 by Rs 120 billion, a Colombo-based think tank has said. The Vote on Account, passed in October last year,...
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