Reply To:
Name - Reply Comment
Last Updated : 2024-04-26 02:12:00
The government has decided to increase the export of agricultural crops from next year, and plans have already been drawn up for the development of minor crops, the State Minister of Development of Minor Crops Related Industries and Export Promotion Janaka Wakkumbura said.
Exports of a wide range of crops including sugarcane, maize, cashew nuts, pepper, cinnamon, cloves, betel, indigenous mangoes, cassava and sour sops will be increased.
Accordingly, the area under cultivation of these crops has been increased, State Minister Wakkumbura stressed.
The government has also decided to produce and export pepper oil. The programme is scheduled to begin in the first quarter of next year, the State Minister added.
According to the Department of Export Agriculture, 3, 739 metric tonnes of betel leaves were exported from January to November this year earning Rs.2.792 billion in foreign exchange.
Last year (2019) 4, 677 metric tonnes of betel were exported and the foreign exchange earned that year was Rs.3.406 billion.
About 95 percent of Sri Lanka’s betel production is exported to Pakistan, as well as to countries in the Middle East, Japan and the United Kingdom, said Dr. Ananda Subhasinghe, Director of the Intercrop and Betel Research Center at the Department of Export Agriculture.
T.H.J. Pieters Wednesday, 30 December 2020 08:10 AM
Regional Plantations Companies would have great potential to diversify, not only to cultivate tea, rubber
Add comment
Comments will be edited (grammar, spelling and slang) and authorized at the discretion of Daily Mirror online. The website also has the right not to publish selected comments.
Reply To:
Name - Reply Comment
US authorities are currently reviewing the manifest of every cargo aboard MV
On March 26, a couple arriving from Thailand was arrested with 88 live animal
According to villagers from Naula-Moragolla out of 105 families 80 can afford
Is the situation in Sri Lanka so grim that locals harbour hope that they coul