Govt. to hand over lands of loss-making tea plantation companies to smallholders

sacre blieu Wednesday, 09 September 2020 10:48 AM

First investigate if these plantation companies are routing some of the crop through dishonest smallholders or fictitious names to go trough as bought leaf or to other private factories at a discount for kickbacks. Never have seen such dishonesty in such huge proportions as has taken place in the past decade. Same with rubber, where some of the private factories/names have seen a surprising improvement in manufacture of estate quality latex crepe superior quality.

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Demuni Uduwara Wednesday, 09 September 2020 07:18 PM

Plantations industry is an asset to the country and every effort should be made to uplift them in productive discussions with those companies concerned. Handing over to small holders are not viable as done in the past. Can LRC give us the present extent-hectares available and the extent took over In 1972 and 1975 with a reconciliation statement?

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