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Coconut plantation expansion efforts underway



Plantation : Tender coconut plantation- promising rich coconut harvest.

TARGET: Energetic efforts are now being made to increase the coconut plantation by 20,000 h.a. before end 2007 to meet the drastic increase in local consumption and foreign demand for value-added products, said Minister of Plantation Industries D. M. Jayaratne.

The accelerated programme will be streamlined under the 'Wevili Saviya' campaign and maximum assistance will be given to the planters, the Minister told the Daily News. A decision has also been taken to subsidise the planters with a sum of Rs. 6,000 per acre and to provide saplings at Rs. 50 which presently costs Rs. 80.

A survey is underway to identify barren lands for new plantations throughout the country where suitable climatic conditions prevail for coconut, he said. Minister expressed hopes to encourage the potential planters to grow export-oriented additional crops such as pepper.

Felling of coconut trees awfully reduced the number of acres of coconut cultivation. This practice was unavoidable due to the house-building increase catering to the increasing population. Another constraint is to find labour when going through the process of meeting the new plantation target, the Minister said.

Export performance of coconut products - 2006 states that coconut oil amounting to 1,449 m tonnes had been exported and the total income accrued was Rs. 138.1 mn, indicating an increase of 23 per cent in comparison to 2005.

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