Desire for dairy drives livestock plan in Sri Lanka
10/05/2011
Ministry secretary, A H Gamage, said the country needed to produce 740 million litres of milk a year to meet its needs and that the government would embark now on a five-year plan to build up its livestock farms.
Mr Gamage said Sri Lanka had 670,000 farmer families at the moment who are engaged in dairy, poultry, goat and pig farming.
The government plan will include taking measures to create “a favourable environment” for private-sector participation in modernised large-scale dairy farms with public and private sector partnerships.
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