INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Minister of Plantation Industries Dr
Ramesh Pathirana has highlighted the importance of identifying new areas for rubber plantation as an option to attend to diminishing
cultivations.Addressing an occasion to introduce a job moneyed by France to support small holder rubber planters, the Minister mentioned
that rubber planters shifting to other crop cultivation need to be strategically addressed.Meanwhile, the French Ambassador in Sri Lanka
mentioned that Sri Lanka and France can improve farming cooperation to uplift industries such as rubber, a significant foreign exchange
earner to the country.Rubber enhancement of Value Chain and Embedded Small Holders Resilience (RIVER) job was introduced today at the
Ministry of Plantation Industries with the aim of supporting 6,000 small-scale rubber plantations in Sri Lanka
Funded by the French Government together with French tire making company Michelin, the job will be technically supported by French
Consultancy company KSAPA.
