How Sri Lanka’s heirloom rice can preserve Indigenous farming and help manage disease

Mongabay
Aug 8, 2026, 5:47 am75 ptsTrending
WASGAMUWA, Sri Lanka – Prior to the 1940s and the Green Revolution, Sri Lankan paddy farmers cultivated traditional rice, locally known as purana haal. These rice cultivars were resilient and known to possess various nutritional and medicinal properties yet were soon replaced by new improved rice varieties to…

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