COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Its name literally means "Resplendent Island," and of all the words one can use to describe Sri Lanka, an island nation directly south of India, resplendent definitely is one of ...

Simply put: Lack of focus by the authorities over several decades, price escalations, trees growing old and step-motherly treatment for a plantation crop that was considered to be gold more than 70 ...

BADALGAMA, Sri Lanka—The head of Sri Lanka's Presidential Task Force on Economic Revival and Poverty Alleviation recently praised Global Rubber Industries (Pvt.) Ltd. during a plant tour for ...

MONARAGALA, Sri Lanka—Specialty tire maker Global Rubber Industries (Pvt.) Ltd. has launched a "Greening Our Planet" initiative by planting 450 rubber trees in the natural rubber estates of ...

Among the causes are uncontrolled price rises, rising costs, ageing trees and the ‘stepchild’ treatment of a crop once considered gold. Field productivity levels are set to halve by 2025. Yet this ...