Pepper on 500 acres at Alawwa
A. Keerthisinghe Alawwa special correspondent
Alawwa Agrarian Services Centre has decided to cultivate pepper on
500 acres at Udagankanda, Abbowa and Bowala in the Alawwa Divisional
Secretariat area.
The farmers of the respective villages too are being encouraged to
cultivate more pepper in these areas, said the North Western
Agriculture, Minor Irrigation, Agrarian Development Minister Shantha
Bandara.
The Wayamba Development Bank has planned to supply loan and quality
seeds, agro chemicals, fertiliser, to improve the living standard of the
rural people under Mahinda Chintana program.
Minister Shantha Bandara said a marketing centre is also to be
constructed at Boyawalana for purchasing their products and planned to
develop home garden agriculture to meet the requirement of food crops
for domestic consumption. |