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The future of agriculture in Sri Lanka

The future of agriculture in Sri Lanka Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.) During the past 30 years no decision was made to implement organic farming in Sri Lanka and now this valuable and historic decision has been made by the Government. “No previous Government understood what I said about the need to bring back ancient Sri Lankan agriculture and promote organic farming. Therefore, I myself created organic farms of 150 acres and showed them that it can be done here in Sri Lanka. Sri Lankans should bow down before the Veddah (Adiwasi) community and not before white skinned foreigners. The Veddah community has all the knowledge required for organic farming,” prominent Entrepreneur, Agricultural Instructor and Environmentalist Thilak Kandegama said.

Professor Ashley Halpe, the great humanitarian I knew – II

By Rohana R. Wasala (Continued from June 19, 2021/SATMAG) Although I could have enrolled for the external degree programme as a private candidate without revealing my job on the strength of my results at the GCE AL exam alone, which I did after completing my training and after being posted to a school, I did […]

LankaWeb – Shirley De Alwis: The Hand behind Peradeniya University s Designs

Posted on April 20th, 2021 KNO Dharmadasa Courtesy Thuppahi’s Blog Shirley D’Alwis, the first University Architect, died in harness. He was working day and night to complete the job entrusted to him – the preparation of the buildings he had designed and started constructing – for the university to be shifted to its intended site in Peradeniya. After a long and protracted battle of the sites” fought in the legislature and in the media, the State Council had finally decided in September 1938 that the proposed University of Ceylon was to be a unitary and residential university and that it should be sited in the land to be acquired from the New Peradeniya Estate, a tea and rubber plantation on the lower Hantana range on the banks of Mahaveli Ganga. It was a picturesque site with the tree clad hilly terrain sloping down from the Hantana range to the river bank.

LankaWeb – Shirley De Alwis: The Hand behind Peradeniya University s Designs

LankaWeb – Shirley De Alwis: The Hand behind Peradeniya University s Designs
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