Challenges faced by tea smallholders
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Twenty million tea saplings will be planted next year – State Minister Herath
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The contribution of the rubber industry to the national economy would be enhanced by establishing rubber-related industries throughout the country, Company Estate Reforms, Tea and Rubber Estates Related Crops Cultivation and Factories Modernization and Tea and Rubber Export Promotion State Minister Kanaka Herath said recently.
The Minister was addressing the inaugural ceremony of the National Entrepreneurship Programme for the Establishment of New Rubber Related Industries. The National Programme commenced from the Kegalle District and it is planned to establish 100 new Rubber-Related Industries in the Kegalle District alone.
This programme is jointly implemented by the Industrial Development Board (IDB) in collaboration with the Rubber Development Department and the Rubber Secretariat under the supervision of the State Ministry of Plantations. It is proposed to implement such programmes especially in the rubber growing districts, which will provide the entrepreneurs aspiring to en
Waiting for information: Scene outside Mahara Prison after the incident
The next of kin of inmates who were at the Mahara Prison during the November 29 catastrophe are on the lookout for their loved ones.
Most of them have not been able to trace their whereabouts. The result has been a collective effort by the Committee to Protect the Rights of Prisoners headed by Senaka Perera, Attorney-at-law.
This Committee has now obtained sworn affidavits from close relatives of inmates who were visiting the Mahara Prison until the incidents broke out there.
According to Edirisinghe Karunawathie (55) of Maligawatte, her son Kaluarachchige Suminda Madsanka has been imprisoned in Mahara Prison for nearly two years due to an ongoing case in the Wattala Magistrate’s Court. She has said that she has visited him on several occasions and that her son bore suspect number 1893.