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612 Brigade Hqrs Encourages Villagers for Fruit Production

With the intention of raising living standards of the people in Chiraddikulam, a village, situated to the east of Manthai, the 612 Brigade Headquarters recently organized a workshop for civilians on manufacture of jam and cordials, using the harvest of fruits, collected from their surroundings.

Chiraddikulam, an area famous for local fruits like wood apple, mangoes, sweet melon, etc does not possess any mechanism to collect or buy bountiful harvest of fruits from the area, nor are those villagers able to sell them to other buyers outside their village.

The workshop that collected about forty fruit cultivates and other interested villagers educated the participants on manufacture of jam and cordial varieties with the help of those fruits in the area. The workshop, supported by ‘Sarvodaya’ organization offered special lectures by Messrs Nalinda Rajapaksha, Ananda Gunasekara and Ms Michelle de Silva, all three of the ‘Sarvodaya’.

The arrangement that received the blessings of the Security Forces Headquarters, Wanni was actively coordinated by 612 Brigade Headquarters with the objective of promoting villagers’ interest in self-help and other volunteer profit-making business projects.