Tea estates urged to adopt innovative projects
Ramani KANGARAARACHCHI
COLOMBO: Tea plantations should go for innovative projects
rather than sticking to traditional patterns, S. Leelaratne, Chairman of
Elkaduwa Plantations said yesterday.
Leelaratne said such methods have helped reduced the company’s huge
and long-standing losses by Rs. 1.7 million during the last year.
It would have reduced further and reached the breakeven point if not
for the estate workers’ latest strike, he said.
This progress was made as a result of receiving a better harvest by
pruning bushes and fertilising them on time and cultivating new plants,
Leelaratne added.
The Bandarapola Factory, among the five factories closed down last
September was opened providing employment to 108 people. |
