Seminar for plantation investors

Ravi Ladduwahetty

Investors into plantation stocks will get valuable insights into the movement of their stocks and future prospects when a seminar theme 'Current developments in the plantation industry' jointly hosted by HNB Stock Brokers and DFCC Stock Brokers (Pvt) Ltd gets under way at the HNB Towers at 6.00 p.m. today.

The background to this seminar stems from the recent rises in the plantation stocks and the plantation Index with the parallel rise in tea and rubber prices which has been instrumental in driving the Colombo Stock Exchange.

This is indeed a valuable opportunity for investors to get insights whether the growth of the sector was real or whether the losses reported in Agalawatte Plantations was a trendsetter for the other plantation companies as well, HNB Stock Brokers General Manager/CEO Deva Ellepola told Daily News Business last night. There will be deliberations on the overall sector.

There will be a series of presentations which will be followed by a panel discussion chaired by Asia Siyaka President cum CEO Anil Cooke.

The other panellists will include Director of the Rubber Research Institute and eminent author Dr. A. Nugawela, National Institute of Plantation Management Consultant, Dr. N. Yogaratnam, Forbes and Walker Director U.C. Bandaranayake and Ministry of Industries Value Added Tea Industry Committee Chairman Rohantha Athukorale.