Govt. decides to plant 400 hectares of coffee next year Source : dailynews The Ministry of Agriculture and Plantation Industry has decided to plant 400 hectares of coffee in the next year. Mahinda Amaraweera, the Minister of Agriculture and Plantation Industries, says that the President Ranill Wickremesinghe allocated Rs.400 million to extend coffee Cultivation in 2024. The minister also mentioned that although coffee cultivation is not currently grown as a main plantation crop in our country, taking into account the high demand in the foreign market for coffee in this country, this step is taken with the aim of popularizing and extending coffee cultivation as a plantation crop again. Accordingly, an amount of one million rupees will be given per hectare and the minister instructed the officials to take measures to encourage the farmers who are interested in coffee cultivation. The Ministry of Agriculture and Plantation Industries has allocated an amount ...
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