Crime & police

150 years of rubber: A milestone worth celebrating

Headline from Lanka Business Online

From 1 outlet’ reports · latest 14 Oct, 1:15 pm

This year, Sri Lanka marks 150 years since rubber was first planted on its soil, a milestone that traces back to 1876, when a shipment of young Hevea brasiliensis seedlings arrived at the Henarathgoda Botanical Gardens in Gampaha. Grown from seeds smuggled out of the Amazon by…

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