Posted on: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 ; 05:27 IST
The Sri Lankan government’s policy on exports centred around the not only the need for earning more foreign exchange, but also towards ensuring equitable economic development and in this regard, the government has taken steps to develop export promotion v
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Colombo: The Sri Lanka Standards Institution (SLSI) and the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) yesterday entered into a bilateral co-operation agreement which would benefit export and import activities between the two countries.
The Director Gene
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Colombo: The policy of the government is to reduce the food import bill for over a period of three years in a bid to encourage local producers thus keeping up the country to be self sufficient in all local food and nutritional requirements, said Ag
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Colombo: Sri Lanka has decided not to ban imports of poultry feed inputs from bird flu hit India, on condition that it is thoroughly fumigated before it is shipped here.
All Island Poultry Association Chief D. D. Wanasinghe said Indian exporters
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Colombo: Sri Lankan chickens may die of hunger and not avian flu as the government temporarily halts Indian maize imports, leaving farmers with just two-weeks stocks, industry sources said. Sri Lanka imports about 90 percent of its annual 200,000 m
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Posted on: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 ; 10:01 IST
Colombo: Sri Lanka has partially lifted a ban on poultry imports and allowed farmers to bring in one-day old chicks to maintain a steady supply of chicken and eggs, an official said yesterday.
"The ban on import of day-old parent chicks has bee
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RPTL signs power pact with western region power utilities
Reliance Power Transmission (RPTL), subsidiary of Reliance Infrastructure, India’s largest private sector enterprise in power utility, has signed power transmission agreement with eight entities from western India for two inter-state power transmission projects.
RPTL signed the agreement through its two Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) for the projects under the Western Region System Strengthening Scheme-II (WRSSS-II), entailing an investment of INR18 billion, for establishing 400 KV double circuit transmission lines of around 1,500 kms, mainly in Maharashtra Continue
