{"id":150896,"date":"2025-07-23T15:11:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T22:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=150896"},"modified":"2025-07-23T15:11:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T22:11:55","slug":"banana-mountains-discarded-at-thambuttegama-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/07\/23\/banana-mountains-discarded-at-thambuttegama-market\/","title":{"rendered":"BANANA MOUNTAINS DISCARDED AT THAMBUTTEGAMA MARKET"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Traders at the Thambuttegama Economic Centre say they are currently forced to discard around 500 kilos of bananas every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They attribute this to a surplus of bananas in the market, coupled with a decrease in sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Traders report that a single ambul banana at the economic centre cannot even be sold for Rs. 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News Traders at the Thambuttegama Economic Centre say they are currently forced to discard around 500 kilos of bananas every day. They attribute this to a surplus of bananas in the market, coupled with a decrease in sales. Traders report that a single ambul banana at the economic centre cannot even be sold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}