Temple to Village program:
Healthy eating habits promotion
Use of chemical fertilizers is one contributory factor towards the
high incidence of kidney ailments. The 'Temple to village' social
hospitality program should strive to encourage people to consume a
wholesome and healthy meal with food items devoid of chemical fertilizer
use, said Agriculture Minister Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena.
The Minister was addressing the gathering after inaugurating the
'temple to village' program under Mahinda Chinthana in the Welipitiya
Divisional Secretariat in Weligama at a ceremony at the Hingurapaththala
Kanishta Vidyalaya recently.
Minister Abeywardena said the nation building effort should be
launched from the village and the clergy including the Maha Sangha
should give leadership to it. The Minister who emphasised the need to
develop agriculture as an environment-friendly industry also explained
the ill effects of using agricultural chemicals and consumption of
artificial food items.
Ven Kotapola Mahinda Thera of the 'Temple to village' program and Maj
Gen Parakrama Pannipitiya were also present.
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