Sri Lanka Pledges $40.7m For Tea Smallholders
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Tea Plantation, Nuwara Eliya
The Sri Lankan government is pledging $40.7m to the nation’s tea smallholders.
The Plantation Industries Ministry aims to improve profitability for the marginal tea smallholdings of the mid-country region, as well as the arable farmers in the Moneragala region.
The Smallholder Plantation Entrepreneurship Development Program (SPEnDP), funded by the International Fund For Agricultural Development, will develop 3,500 hectares of arable lands and 3,800 hectares of rubber plantations in Mongerala.
C. Maliyadda, the Project Co-ordinator, says that the programme aims to improve living standards for smallholders and their families by encouraging entrepreneurship and partnership between the smallholders and the tea factories.
75ha of tea gardens have already been replanted under the scheme.
The area covered by the scheme includes Kegelle, Kandy, Nuwara Eliya and Mongeragal District. 8,700 households are expected to benefit, a total of 32,250 individuals.
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