Media Release
Sri Lanka Army, broadening its horizons further into large scale agro-industry, farming and dairy products entered into a joint cultivation venture with the Letsgrow (Pvt) Ltd for cultivations in selected Army-owned lands, farms and formations across the country after signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the lessee and the Sri Lanka Army early this week.
The new agreement with the private firm, which has potential buyers for agricultural products, both here and abroad is to provide state of the art foreign expertise and training opportunities to Army personnel on the latest agro-industry practices once they commence work on the farms.
The MoU in this connection was signed between the Commander of the Army Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasuriya and Mr Promodya Wickramasinghe, Director, Letsgrow (Pvt) Ltd.
The first agricultural farm of this nature is to see the light of the day at the Army’s Kandekadu farm, covering some 3000 acres as the pilot project of this agreement where the private firm is expected to grow bananas and pineapples providing employment to civil sector workers as the project reaches its full capacity within a few years with the support of the Army administration.
The project has received the fullest backing from Mr Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Secretary Defence as the country, is now set to venture into many non-traditional crops as agricultural practices and methods in the world are fast changing with new innovative challenges.
Almost all the agricultural and dairy farms, maintained earlier by the Army were left unattended in the past owing to troop requirements and escalation of terrorist violence in related areas. The Army with a view to lending a helping hand to the ongoing island-wide crop cultivation drive is to begin new agricultural projects in neglected land and help improve their harvests. (Ends)
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