Sri Lanka: Coconut plantations increase revenue
Date
11/28/2020 2:45:46 AM
(MENAFN) State media quoting a government administrator revealed on Saturday, November 28, that Sri Lanka's coconut farms augment income by 60 percent with the introduction of tea as a brushwood crop.
Kanaka Herath, State Minister of Company Estate Reforms, Tea and Rubber Estates Related crops Cultivation and Factories Modernization and Tea and Rubber Export Promotion, stated throughout a project launching in the town of Rambukanna, cited by state-owned Daily News "About 3,000 tea plants can be grown on an acre of coconut plantation, which can increase the annual income by 60 percent. The government will provide cultivation subsidies for this purpose, especially technical and financial assistance for irrigation purposes".
The government's Teas Small Holdings Development Authority is projected to offer training on tea farming for coconut plantation owners.
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