In collaboration with the Division and Agriculture and personal sector is able to export a number of sorts of seeds on this nation for the primary time.
Accordingly, a number of species of chillies, eggplant, Capsicum, okra and maize have been efficiently examined and there’s a excessive demand for these seeds from many nations.
The Division of Agriculture and the non-public sector of this nation have carried out analysis on these new sorts of seeds and the analysis on the seeds has been carried out by the consultants of the Division of Agriculture.
Additionally, the advance and processing of these seeds has been accomplished by the non-public sector in Sri Lanka by getting the very best know-how and professional assist.
Accordingly, the Director Common of Agriculture Mrs. Malathi Parasuraman knowledgeable the Minister of Agriculture and Plantation Business, Mr. Mahinda Amaraweera that for the primary time on this 12 months, a number of the above-mentioned seeds have been ready for export.
Yesterday (06) afternoon, the minister noticed the analysis crops at Palvehera CIC seed farm.
The minister who expressed his opinion mentioned that though seeds for numerous crops have been imported from overseas nations, it ought to be appreciated that essentially the most appropriate seeds are being produced for cultivation in our nation.
The MICH 1-2 chilli varieties launched by the Division of Agriculture are at the moment yielding very profitable harvests throughout the nation. It’s doable to get crops for 09 consecutive months from that chili cultivation. The minister additionally mentioned that based mostly on the success of the analysis carried out on many different vegetable crops together with maize and plenty of fruit varieties, it is going to be doable to cease the import of seeds to Sri Lanka sooner or later.
As a consequence of this, the costs of seeds can be diminished by 50 %. The minister additionally suggested the officers to make it possible to the farmers of our nation to purchase these seeds at a really low worth in comparison with the imported seeds.
Mrs. Malathi Parasuraman, Director Common of the Division of Agriculture additionally participated on this occasion.
(function (d, s, id) {
var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
if (d.getElementById(id)) return;
js = d.createElement(s);
js.id = id;
js.src = “//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v9.0”;
fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);
}(document, ‘script’, ‘facebook-jssdk’));(function(d, s, id){
var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
if (d.getElementById(id)) return;
js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;
js.src = “//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v9.0”;
fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);
}(document, ‘script’, ‘facebook-jssdk’));
