Plantation development project launched

Ridma DISSANAYAKE

The North Central Provincial Agriculture Department launched a crop plantation development project simultaneously at the Deyata Kirula-2012 programme. The Provincial Department spent around Rs.22 million on this project.

They have established plantations in 22 rural villages in the Anuradhapura district and each Divisional Secretariat received one plantation value of Rs.100,000 through the programme. The Provincial Agriculture Department has given instructions to plant paddy in 10 acres in each selected village and they are to plant these paddy according to the parachute system. In addition to that the steps had taken to plant number of crop verities as the additional crops.

As well as all measures are in place to produce big onion seeds in each village and they have planted 16,000 kilos of big onions with the aim of having a harvest of 5,500 kilos per year.