Sri Lanka’s plantation sector is facing renewed scrutiny as Regional Plantation Companies
The Planters’ Association of Ceylon (PA) has renewed calls on the Government to urgently

Sri Lanka banned oil palm cultivation through Extraordinary Gazette No. 2222/13 issued on April 5, 2021, by then
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The Planters’ Association of Ceylon (PA) has reiterated its call for an urgent reversal of the ban on oil palm cultivation
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Over the decades, it has been promoted as a way to reduce Sri Lanka’s dependence on imported palm oil and boost local
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Nissanka published Oil palm industry in Sri Lanka: Its production potential and current status, and future
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In Sri Lanka, most oil palm expansion took place on old rubber lands that had already reached the end of their
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The association rejects environmental arguments against oil palm cultivation, emphasizing that plantations in Sri
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Commercial oil palm cultivation in Sri Lanka started in the late 1960s and early 1970s, at a time when many Asian countries had not
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For nearly two decades, Sri Lanka’s oil palm debate has resurfaced in cycles — often driven by economic arguments,
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Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa ordered all palm producers to remove the trees and replace them with
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Collectively, palm kernel, palm olein, palm stearin and crude palm oil accounted for 164,835 MT or nearly 30 of all
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Sri Lanka banned oil palm cultivation after what Fernando described as an “ill-conceived but knee-jerk decision”
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Certainly, the study demonstrates that the palm oil industry in Sri Lanka currently saves approximately USD 17 million annually
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The industry’s renewed interest in oil palm stems from its high productivity and profitability compared to traditional
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The palm oil industry in Sri Lanka has been an import substitution policy initiative aimed at reducing palm oil imports
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The future of Sri Lanka’s plantation industry lies in its ability to adapt to evolving challenges while building on its
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The palm oil industry in Sri Lanka has been an import substitution policy initiative aimed at reducing palm oil imports
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Conclusion The delivery of the 500Kg/H Palm Fruit Oil Extraction Line to Sri Lanka proves that scalable and efficient palm oil
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Therefore, this study explores the economic aspects of the industry, such as costs and returns, contribution to the economy, tariff
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The outlook for the palm oil plantation industry in Sri Lanka is complex and subject to various economic,
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The palm oil industry in Sri Lanka has been an import substitution policy initiative aimed at reducing palm oil imports
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In Colombo, a local industry body said that expanding palm oil production could significantly reduce the country’s
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Solidaridad has released the "Myths and Truths of Oil Palm," a research-based scientific
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Sri Lanka’s palm oil based industry, once a promising foreign exchange earner under the
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At present, Sri Lanka has several oil palm fields, but Sri Lanka has only two oil separating stations. They are situated
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Just like alternative crops grown to obtain vegetable oil, oil palm provides a year-round source of income for plantation
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Asia Palm Oil Magazine delivers the latest palm oil industry news, refinery updates, sustainability insights,
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Update April 10, 2021. The President of Sri Lanka issued a 'midnight gazette' to ban the import of palm oil with further
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The momentous recognition makes the mill the first palm oil mill in South Asia and Sri Lanka to be certified with this coveted
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Substituting with coconut oil undermines a lucrative export industry that earned LKR 63 billion in 2020. The
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Sri Lanka’s edible oil market has received considerable attention in recent weeks due to a series of events: the banning of palm oil
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