COLOMBO, Sept 15 (NNN-XINHUA) – Sri Lankan President, Ranil Wickremesinghe said, Sri Lanka must start agricultural modernisation in 2023, to feed its growing population and become a net exporter of food, the President’s Media Division (PMD) said, yesterday.
Wickremesinghe made the statement, at a meeting of the Multi-Sector Combined Committee, to ensure food security and nutrition.
He said, agriculture can earn foreign exchange by enhancing production and competitiveness through the modernisation of agriculture.
“By the end of 2023, we should get the modernisation programme going in full swing. We should earn foreign exchange from agriculture. By 2050, our population will be 25 million. This might be a problem, if we don’t modernise agriculture,” he said.
Wickremesinghe added that, the growing populations, not only in Sri Lanka, but globally, present many opportunities.– NNN-XINHUA
