Mr. NKA Rupasinghe, Director General of the Dept of Export Agriculture Sri Lanka addressing the audience
View of the participants at the programme
Main objectives of the program are increase awareness of the farming community about the advantages of investing on pepper industry, promote Good Agricultural Practices, Pepper Processing and Value addition, strengthen the Market opportunities and increase Pepper Exports.
Department of Export Agriculture has already launched an assistance scheme to distribute good quality planting material and to assist financially in initial stages to maintain the crop and processing of quality pepper and also all the technical advices provide by a well experienced staff.
Source: DEA, Kandy, Sri Lanka