India provides 52 four-wheel tractors
Indian High Commissioner in Sri Lanka Ashok K Kantha handed over 52 four-wheel tractors to Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa at a ceremony held at Galle Face yesterday.
This is the first lot of a total of 500 tractors which the Government of India is supplying to Sri Lanka under grant assistance. All the tractors come with a complete set of farm implements, namely, 9 Tine Tiller, Rotovator, two furrow Disc Plough and cage wheel. The total cost of the project is Sri Lanka Rupees (SLR) 600 million.
Indian High Commissioner Ashok K Kantha said that since the end of the armed conflict in Sri Lanka in May 2009, the Government of India has intensified its development assistance. He said that Government of India plans to assist in setting up an Agriculture Research Training Centre and Agriculture Faculty in the Northern Province.
Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa recalling the developmental assistance provided by the Government of India for the Northern Province, thanked the High Commissioner and the Government of India for the assistance.
The Government of India has already supplied 70,000 individual packets of agricultural implements to IDPs through a grant in 2009-10. The total grant amounts to approximately 155 million SLR. There is a proposal to supply additional 25,000 individual packs of the agricultural implements.
The Government of India under a grant is also supplying seeds to Sri Lanka of other field crops which includes green gram and black gram. The quantity of green gram is 5,500 kgs and that of black gram is 43,000 kgs. The total cost is approximately 11.2 million SLR.
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