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Sri Lanka’s ambitious plan to transform surplus rice into value-added commercial products is emerging alongside an increasingly bitter battle over paddy prices, highlighting the challenge of balancing long-term agricultural reform with immediate farmer demands. President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has announced the removal of a decades-old gazette that restricted rice primarily to direct consumption. The policy […] The post Rice Diversification Plan Faces Farmer Price Crisis amid Harvest Protests appeared first on Lankanews.lk .

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