Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe with journalists from the North and East.

Subsidy removal withers 500,000 coconut trees

by Ravi Ladduwahetty

A crisis currently looms over Sri Lanka's coconut industry with 500,000 trees withering due to the recent drought, following the termination of the subsidy given to growers for moisture retention from 1996 onwards during the PA regime, Plantation Industries Minister Lakshman Kiriella charged in an interview with the Daily News yesterday.
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Referendum on conflict agreement - PM

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe declared that a referendum will be held to obtain the consent of the entire nation on the agreement that will be reached following talks between the LTTE for the resolution of the ethnic conflict.
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President has no intention to hinder negotiation process

President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga in a statement to the media yesterday categorically denied a statement attributed to her to the effect that "she can cancel the MoU with one letter to the Army Commander."
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