3 November 2017 12:00 am
Plantation Industries Minister Navin Dissanayake visited the WATEC exhibition in Israel.
The visit was aimed at finding new and practical technology solutions to support the plantation industry even during the drought seasons to maintain the momentum of the harvest and to support the tea smallholders by introducing new water technologies for them to gain a consistent income during droughts.
Further, the minister was successful to negotiate long-term financing schemes from the manufacturers.
He also succeeded in negotiating mobile desalination systems with financing schemes to be installed in several areas in Sri Lanka to overcome the main issue of the agriculture sector.