Api Wawamu Rata Nagamu:

Answer to food shortage

Nethali Struys

There won’t be any necessity of being afraid of a long-term food shortage if the Api Wawamu Rata Nagamu program is implemented in a proper manner, Youth Affairs and Skills Development Minister Dullas Alahapperuma said at a foundation stone laying ceremony for an Agrarian Service Centre at Talalla recently.

The Centre is being built under Agrarian Services and Wildlife Ministry’s decentralized funding of Rs 13.5 million.

The project will be completed in six months. The previous Agrarian Service Centre was destroyed by the tsunami in 2004.

The Minister said that they are to be blamed for taking so long to rebuild the Centre and the Agrarian Service Centre offices are to be praised for carrying out their duties under difficulties with no proper place to work.

“We should be ready to face the impending world food shortage, said the Minister.

He pointed out that the world population is seven billion and each day it increases by 217,000.