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| Wednesday, 15 December 2004 |
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by Uditha Kumarasinghe The Agriculture, Lands and Irrigation Ministry has taken steps to streamline the activities of Sri Lanka Hadabima Authority (SLHA) with effect from next year. The SLHA which comes under the Ministry is engaged in the conservation of the highlands in the central hills with the participation of farmers who own these infertile lands. It contributes to increase the gross national production through the commencement of the sustainable agri-economic plantation, a Ministry spokesman told the Daily News. Under the new plan formulated by the Ministry, the development activities of the SLHA will be expanded to 90 Divisional Secretariat divisions in Kandy, Matale, Kegalle, Nuwara Eliya, Badulla, Moneragala and Ratnapura districts by 2005, he said. Priority has been given for soil conservation of catchment areas, management of rain water harvesting, agriculture villages, home garden development programs, backyard poultry programs, bee-keeping and providing technical knowledge to farmers through various farmer training programs. The SLHA has also made arrangements to develop 4,728 home garden units before the end of this year under its sustainable land development program. According to this program, SLHA is providing 14,100 coconut saplings, 9,400 mango saplings, 9,400 avocado plants and 9,400 lemon plants to the Divisional Secretariat divisions to be distributed among farmers and villages, he said. In addition to the above programs, the SLHA will implement school land environmental development programs and water resources conservation programs at Divisional Secretariat level in collaboration with farmers and schoolchildren, he said. |
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