The Sirisena-Wickremesinghe Government’s Rural Economy Minister, P. Harrison, has chosen to revive a project initiated by the former Economic Development Minister, Basil Rajapaksa.
The reason, he says, is because the Government has given “high priority to develop the dairy industry” in Sri Lanka.
Mr. Rajapaksa’s proposal was approved by the then Cabinet of Ministers on June 5, 2014 and involved the import of 20,000 dairy heifers from Australia. For this purpose, his Ministry signed an agreement on October 14, 2014 with Wellard Rural Exports Pty Ltd of Australia.
Assistance for the import of these heifers is coming from the Co-operative Bank Rabo UA of Netherlands and the Export Finance Corporation, Australia. The loan extended is US$ 73 million.
The Cabinet of Ministers has given approval to go ahead with the project.
In 2013, 1,500 dairy cattle were imported from Australia.
Popular grade five tuition teacher, Hayeshika Fernando wanted over assaulting a 21 year old youth was granted bail today after she surrendered to courts.
A British national had been arrested over attempting to smuggle in the largest haul of kush( drugs) from Thailand, customs said.
The Government of Sri Lanka maintains that the allegation of genocide during the final phase of the conflict in Sri Lanka is unsubstantiated by any credible authority, either nationally or internationally, and is based on misleading information. Sri Lanka firmly rejects this false narrative and believes it has been propagated primarily for electoral gains within Canada.
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