SRI LANKA COCONUTS
October 1st, 2003
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE, in Columbo
COCONUTS will be henceforth measured by weight as opposed to numbers of nuts at auctions in Sri Lanka, in a bid to improve productivity in sales and production. At a recent seminar, the country's Coconut Development Authority stressed that weight sales would also attract desiccated coconut millers to auctions. Meanwhile, of the Sri Lankan government has increased the country's coconut fertilizer subsidy by 30-40 per cent to around SLRupees 100 million to help growers to increase production.
COCONUTS will be henceforth measured by weight as opposed to numbers of nuts at auctions in Sri Lanka, in a bid to improve productivity in sales and production. At a recent seminar, the country's Coconut Development Authority stressed that weight sales would also attract desiccated coconut millers to auctions. Meanwhile, of the Sri Lankan government has increased the country's coconut fertilizer subsidy by 30-40 per cent to around SLRupees 100 million to help growers to increase production.
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