The Hon. Sunil Handunnetti - Minister of Industry and Entrepreneurship Development
The Minister said longstanding issues in the coconut sector, including tree felling and estate conversion, cannot be resolved immediately because new trees take time to mature. He stated that the Government would import copra and provide it to local mills for domestic processing as an interim measure.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Exactly. These are longstanding issues. We must change them. Many coconut trees have been cut; estates converted. You cannot regrow trees overnight. So we will import some copra and supply to our mills for domestic processing.
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- Hansard, Thursday, 9 January 2025 ·No. 1738229262040729 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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